TEXACO, INC. v. F.E.R.C.

No. 87-4735.

886 F.2d 749 (1989)

TEXACO, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome F. Feit, Sol., John H. Conway, Dwight Cooper Alpern, F.E.R.C., Washington, D.C., for F.E.R.C.

Lindsey How-Downing, San Francisco, Cal., for Pacific Gas & Elec. Co.

John T. Miller, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Elizabethtown Gas Co.

Thomas George Wagner, Jay G. Martin, Houston, Tex., for Mobil Oil Corp.

Judy M. Johnson, Houston, Tex., for Tex. Eastern Transmission Corp.

James R. Lacey, Newark, N.J., for Public Service Elec. and Gas Co.

Harvey L. Reiter, William I. Harkaway, Washington, D.C., Barbara M. Gunther, New York City, for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc.

Robert A. MacDonnell, Philadelphia, Pa., for Philadelphia Elec. Co.

John S. Schmid, Barbara K. Heffernan, Demetrios G. Pulas, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Bay State Gas Co., et al.

Stanley W. Balis, Washington, D.C., for The Municipal Defense Group.

David L. Konick, Washington, D.C., for The Brooklyn Union Gas Co.

Joseph M. Oliver, Jr., M. Lisanne Crowley, Washington, D.C., for N.J. Natural Gas Co.

William H. Penniman, John D. Sharer, Mary Katherine P. Yarbrough, Washington, D.C., for The Process Gas Consumers Group.

Jerome C. Muys, Washington, D.C., for Somerset Gas Service.

Joseph C. Bell, Jeffrey T. Sprung, Washington, D.C., for Citizens Energy Corp.

John E. Holtzinger, Jr., Keving J. Lipson, Washington, D.C., for Consolidated Gas Transmission Corp.

Kevin M. Sweeney, Washington, D.C., for Marathon Oil Co.

Stephen J. Small, Ronald N. Carroll, Charleston, W.V., for Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.

Richard A. Solomon, David D'Alessandro, Washington, D.C., for The Public Service Com'n of the State of N.Y.

James F. Bowe, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Long Islandlightning Co.

John F. Harrington, Kenneth R. Carretta, Washington, D.C., for Texas Gas Transmission Corp.

Robert W. Maris, Richard E. Stabinski, John K. McDonald, Philadelphia, Pa., for Philadelphia Gas Works.

Charles E. Suffling, Washington, D.C., for Penzoil Co.

Judy M. Johnson, Houston, Tex., for Texas Eastern Trans. Corp.

James D. Hurley, Texaco, Inc., Legal Dept., New Orleans, La., Gordon Gooch, Katherine B. Edwards, Mark R. Haskell, Travis & Gooch, Washington, D.C., Ralph J. Pearson, Jr., David Lindberg, Texaco Inc., Legal Dept., Houston, Tex., Thomas J. Eastment, Washington, D.C., C. Roger Hoffman, Exxon Corp., Houston, Tex., for Exxon Corp.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, BROWN and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

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