LAKEHEAD PIPELINE COMPANY, Limited Partnership, Petitioner-Appellant,
v.
ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION, Illinois Department of Agriculture, Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency McHenry County, Kendall County, Kane County, Village of Mokena, City of Woodstock, City of Piano, Communities Against the Pipeline, Robert Pollack, Respondents-Appellees.
Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Decided April 7, 1998.
As Modified on Denial of Rehearing July 16, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gerald A. Ambrose (argued), Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Gregory A. Wheeler, Lakehead Pipe Line Co., Inc., for Lakehead Pipe Line Co.
Kathleen Nolan and James E. Weging (argued), Office of General Counsel-ICC, Chicago, for Illinois Commerce Com'n.
Karen L. McNaught, Asst. Atty. Gen., Springfield, for Illinois Dept. of Agriculture.
Stacey C. Hollo, Illinois Dept. Of Transp., Springfield, for Illinois Dept. of Transp.
Mary K. Walter, McHenry County Asst. State's Atty., Woodstock, Michael D. Sullivan, Terry Sullivan, The Sullivan Firm, Ltd., Rolling Meadows, for McHenry County.
Christopher N. Wise, McKeown, Fitzgerald, Zollner & Buck, Joliet, for Village of Mokena, Will County.
Timothy McCann, State's Atty., Yorkville, for Kendall County,
David R. Akemann, St. Charles, Patricia Johnson Lord, Chief: Civil Div., St. Charles, Michele L. Niermann, Asst. State's Atty., St. Charles, for Kane County.
Michael T. Caldwell, Caldwell, Berner & Caldwell, Woodstock, for City of Woodstock.
James R. Schirott, Schirott & Luetkehans, P.C., Itasca, for David M. Hughes.
Thomas W. Grant, Yorkville, for City of Piano.
Jeffrey D. Greenspan (argued), David Lincoln Ader, Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Cope & Bush, P.C., Chicago, for Communities Against The Pipeline.
John J. Kim, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield, for Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
Michele F. Joy, General Counsel/Assoc. of Oil Pipe Lines, Washington, DC, Alan B. Friedlander, Senior Atty,/American Petroleum Institute, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae American Petroleum Institute, Assoc. of Oil Pipe Lines.
Richard A. Neufeld, Milner Fenerty, Calgary, Alberta, CN, for amicus curiae Canadian Assoc. of Petroleum Producers.
Boyd J. Springer, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Chicago, for amicus curiae Amoco Oil Co.
Brady C. Williamson, Debbie K. Lerner, LaFollette & Sinykin, Madison, WI, for amicus curiae Petroleum Marketers Assoc. of Wisconsin.
Michele Odorizzi, Stephen J. Mattson, Barbara E. Cohen, Mayer, Brown & Piatt, Chicago, for amicus curiae Quantum Pipeline Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District.
Justice BRESLIN delivered the opinion of the court:
This controversy concerns a challenge to the Illinois Commerce Commission's (Commission) authority to regulate a proposed interstate pipeline under the Common Carrier by Pipeline Law (Pipeline Law) (220 ILCS 5/15-100 et seq. (West 1996)). Petitioner Lakehead Pipe Line Company (Lakehead) and amici curiae assert that the Commission exceeded its lawful authority when reviewing Lakehead's application for...
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