ASSOCIATED GAS DISTRIBUTORS, et al., Petitioners,
v.
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent,
Florida Gas Transmission Company, et al., Intervenors.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 25, 1985.
Decided January 23, 1987.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Frederick Moring, with whom Jennifer N. Waters, Stanley W. Balis, Philip J. Mause, Daniel Guttman, Reuben Goldberg, Washington, D.C., Robert B. McLennan, San Francisco, Cal., Richard A. Solomon, David D'Alessandro, Washington, D.C., Janice E. Kerr, J. Calvin Simpson, and Lawrence Q. Garcia, San Francisco, Cal., were on joint brief, for petitioners.
Andrea Wolfman, Atty., F.E.R.C., with whom Jerome M. Feit, Sol., F.E.R.C., Washington, D.C., was on brief, for respondent. Barbara J. Weller, Atty., F.E.R.C., Washington, D.C., entered an appearance for respondent.
Thomas G. Johnson, with whom Jon L. Brunenkant, Kevin M. Sweeney, Michael G. Maloney, Charles M. Darling, IV, Stephen L. Teichler, Carmen Childester Farrell, Nancy J. Skancke, Washington, D.C., Edmunds Travis, Jr., Douglas W. Rasch, David R. Stevenson, Steven R. Severy, Robert D. Haworth, Charles J. McClees, Jr., Houston, Tex., Ronald D. Hurst, Paul W. Hicks, Karen S. Bedell, Dallas, Tex., Walter L. Brignon, Tulsa, Okl., Jennifer A. Cates, Larry Pain, Bartlesville, Okl., Phyllis Rainey, Houston, Tex., F. Nan Wagoner, Bellaire, Tex., Robert B. Perry, Plano, Tex., Merrill E. Fliederbaum, Houston, Tex., Lois Gold Ellen, and Albert Sylvia, III, Los Angeles, Cal., were on joint brief, for intervenors Shell Offshore, Inc., et al.
Michael B. Silva, Houston, Tex., Douglas Field, Robert W. Best, Christopher T. Boland, Frank X. Kelly, and Steve Stojic, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for intervenor Texas Gas Transmission Corp.
William V. Allison, Winter Park, Fla., entered an appearance for intervenor Florida Gas Transmission Co.
J. Evans Attwell, Judy M. Johnson, Thomas G. Wagner, and Cheryl M. Foley, Houston, Tex., entered appearances for intervenor Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.
David M. Whitney, Houston, Tex., entered an appearance for intervenor Aminoil, Inc.
Cecil W. Talley, Shreveport, La., entered an appearance for intervenor Sea Robin Pipeline Co.
Thomas F. Ryan, Jr., and Richard T. Boone, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for intervenor Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Charles H. Shoneman and Patricia Fry Eldridge, Houston, Tex., entered appearances for intervenor Texas Gas Exploration Corp.
James W. McCartney, Houston, Tex., entered an appearance for intervenor Transwestern Pipeline Co.
Stephen M. Hackerman, Houston, Tex., entered an appearance for intervenor United Gas Pipeline Co.
T.J. Carroll, III, Lakewood, Colo., and John P. Furman, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for intervenor K N Energy, Inc.
Before WALD, Chief Judge, RUTH BADER GINSBURG and SCALIA, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
Petitioners in this review proceeding are consumers and distributors of natural gas; they challenge a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) order dismissing their protests concerning the Commission's treatment of certain price escalator clauses (called "area rate clauses") in gas sale contracts between gas producers and pipeline companies...
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