Mid-Louisiana Gas Co. v. F.E.R.C

Full title: MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY, ET AL., PETITIONERS, v. FEDERAL ENERGY…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.[fn*] Unit A

Date published: Aug 19, 1983

713 F.2d 111 (5th Cir. 1983)

Opinion

Nos. 80-3804, 80-4010.

August 19, 1983.

Donald W. Seeley, Jr., Alan C. Wolf, New Orleans, La., for Mid Louisiana Gas Co.

Peter J. Wall, Denver, Colo., Larry D. Hall, Vice President, Hastings, Neb., William W. Brackett, Daniel F. Collins, Terry O. Vogel, Richard W. Miller, Jr., Brackett Collins, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Kansas-Nebraska Natural Gas Co.

Kim Martin Clark, William J. Grealis, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer Feld, Washington, D.C., for Northwest Pipeline Corp.; Donald C. Shepler, Northwest Pipeline Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah, of counsel.

Morris Kennedy, L. Eugene Dickinson, Ashland, Ky., James D. McKinney, Jr., William R. Mapes, Jr., Ross, Marsh Foster, Washington, D.C., for Kentucky West Virginia Gas Co.

Charles J. McInerney, Senior Vice President and Gen. Counsel, Detroit, Mich., William W. Brackett, Daniel F. Collins, Terry O. Vogel, Brackett Collins, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co.

Kevin J. Lipson, Karol Lyn Newman, John E. Holtzinger, Jr., Morgan, Lewis Bockius, Washington, D.C., for Consol. Gas Supply Corp.

Jerome Nelson, Sol. and Acting Gen. Counsel, Auburn L. Mitchell, Susan Tomasky, Washington, D.C., for F.E.R.C.

Arnold D. Berkeley, Richard I. Chaifetz, Bruce J. Wendel, Washington, D.C., for Arizona Elec. Power Co-op. Inc.

George J. Meiburger, Frank X. Kelly, Washington, D.C., John B. Will, Deborah K. Vinson, Omaha, Neb., for Northern Natural Gas Co.

Philip J. Mause, Norman A. Pedersen, Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodward, Quinn Rossi, Washington, D.C., for Public Service Com'n of Wisconsin; Steve Schur, Public Service Com'n of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., of counsel.

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen., Robert Derengoski, Sol. Gen., Lansing, Mich., Ronald D. Eastman, Jeffrey D. Komarow, Cadwalader, Wickersham Taft, Washington, D.C., for State of Mich. and the Michigan Public Service Com'n.

Peter H. Schiff, Gen. Counsel, Albany, N.Y., Alexander M. Peters, Wilner Scheiner, Richard A. Solomon, Washington, D.C., for Public Service Com'n of State of N Y

Philip C. Wrangler, Houston, Tex., for Exploration and Production Div. of Southern Natural Gas Co.

William M. Lange, P. Michael Koenig, Colorado Springs, Colo., for Colorado Interstate Gas Co.

Richard C. Green, C. Frank Reifsnyder, Hogan Hartson, Washington, D.C., Richard Owen Baish, Donald J. MacIver, Jr., Scott D. Fobes, Dennis J. Dwyer, El Paso, Tex., Raymond N. Shibley, Brian D. O'Neill, George M. Knapp, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby MacRae, Washington, D.C., for El Paso Nat. Gas Co., Miriam Vogel Gold, CIBA-GEIGY Corp., Ardsley, N.Y., of counsel.

Petitions for Review of Orders of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Before CHARLES CLARK, GARZA and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

These causes are remanded to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for further proceedings consistent with the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States dated June 28, 1983, in Cause No. 81-1889, Public Service Commission of the State of New York v. Mid-Louisiana Gas Co., et al. ___ U.S. ___, 103 S.Ct. 3024, 77 L.Ed.2d 668.