The DAILY ADVERTISER, Richard D'Aquin, Mr. Cook Licensing Corporation d/b/a Mr. Cook Restaurants, Compagnie Vermilion Incorporated, Compagnie CL-BM, Ltd., and C. Earl Hagood, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated
v.
TRANS-LA (A DIVISION OF ATMOS ENERGY CORPORATION d/b/a Energas Company), Louisiana Intrastate Gas Corporation, Lig Chemical Company, Tuscaloosa Pipeline Company, and Trans-Louisiana Industrial Gas Company, Inc.
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January 19, 1993.
January 19, 1993.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Sheryl Lines Hopkins, New Orleans, Orrin L. Harrison, III, Vinson & Elkins, Don E. James, Dallas, Tex., Jon Kenton Parsons, Roedel, Parsons, Forrester & Koch, Baton Rouge, for applicant.
Oscar E. Reed, Jr., William Martin Hudson, III, Oats & Hudson, Bob F. Wright, James Parkerson Roy, Domengeaux & Wright, Lafayette, Eddie J. Jordan, Jr., Sessions & Fishman, Walter C. Thompson, Jr., Barkley & Thompson, Ernest L. Edwards, George Frazier, IV, C. David Vasser, Jr., Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, Lawrence E. Donohoe, Jr., Onebane, Donohoe, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, Abel & McNamara, Lafayette, Jeffrey Allan Riggs, Le-Doux R. Provosty, Jr., Provosty, Sadler & deLaunay, Alexandria, for respondent.
Constance Charles Willems, McGlinchey Stafford Lang, New Orleans, for Entex, a div. of Arkla, Inc., and Louisiana Gas Service Co., a div. of Citizens Utilities Co., amicus curiae.
Thomas O. Lind, J. Wayne Anderson, Margaret McAliste Silverstein, Monroe & Lemann, New Orleans, for Louisiana Power and Light Co., amicus curiae.
Robert Ryland Percy, III, Percy & Pujol, Gonzales, for East Ascension Telephone Co., amicus curiae.
Carolyn L. DeVitis, Denham Springs, Michael R. Fontham, Paul Lewis Zimmering, Karen H. Freese, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, Rickey Wayne Miniex, Simien & Miniex, Lafayette, for Louisiana Public Service Com', amicus curiae.
John B. Hussey, Jr., Wilkinson, Carmody, Gilliam & Hussey, Shreveport, for Southwestern Elec. Power Co., amicus curiae.
Ashton R. Hardy, Regina Carol Scotto Wedig, Marjorie Ruth Esman, New Orleans, for Radiofone, Inc., amicus curiae.
Edward Hart Bergin, M. Megan Shemwell, T. Michael Twomey, Leslie Barbee Ponder IV, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, for BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. d/b/a South Central Bell Telephone Co., amicus curiae.
Richard P. Ieyoub, Atty. Gen., James Marshall Ross, Baton Rouge, for State of La., amicus curiae.
James Leeper Ellis, Baton Rouge, for Gulf States Utilities Co., amicus curiae.
William O. Bonin, New Iberia, for Central Louisiana Elec. Co., amicus curiae.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
HALL, Justice.*
We granted certiorari to decide whether the district court or the Louisiana Public Service Commission ("LPSC") has subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate a claim by a class of residential and commercial end users of natural gas against several intrastate natural gas pipeline companies and distributors, arising out of the alleged manipulation of automatic fuel adjustment clauses.1 To resolve...
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