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United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al.; Federal Power Commission v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al.; and Texas Gas Transmission Corp. et al. v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al., 1958 — 355 U.S. 938 · caselaw · US
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United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al.; Federal Power Commission v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al.; and Texas Gas Transmission Corp. et al. v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al.
355 U.S. 938·Supreme Court of the United States·1958
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Opinion
No. 691.
No. 694.
No. 695.
United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al.; Federal Power Commission v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al.; and Texas Gas Transmission Corp. et al. v. Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al.
Ralph M. Carson, Thomas Fletcher and C. Huffman Lewis for petitioner in No. 691. Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Doub, Paul A. Sweeney, Bernard Cedarbaum and Willard W. Gatchell for petitioner in No. 694. John T. Cahill for the Texas Gas Transmission Corporation, and William S. Tarver for the Southern Natural Gas Co., petitioners in No. 695. With them on the petition in No. 695 were Richard J. Connor and Daniel James. Reuben Goldberg for the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division et al., respondents. Roger Arnebergh, John C. Banks, Peter Campbell Brown, E. R. Christensen, J. Elliott Drinard, Marshall F. Hurley, J. Frank McKenna,'John C. Melan-iphy, Charles S. Rhyne and J. Parker Connor filed a brief for the Member Municipalities of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, as amici curiae, in opposition to the petitions for writs of certiorari.
[MAJORITY]
Motion in Nos. 691, 694 and 695 for leave to file brief of the Ohio Fuel Gas Co. et al., as amici curiae, denied. Motions in No. 694 for leave to file brief and reply brief of Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America et al., as amici curiae, denied. Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted.
Reported below: 102 U. S. App. D. C. 77, 250 F. 2d 402.