Federal Power Commission v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. et al. ; and National Coal Association et al. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. et al.

No. 748. No. 749. Federal Power Commission v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. et al. ; and National Coal Association et al. v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. et al. Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Doub, Samuel D. Slade, Willard W. Gatchell, Howard S. Wahrenbrock, Robert L, Russell and David J. Bardin for petitioner in No. 748. Jerome J. McGrath, Robert M. Landis, Robert E. Lee Hall and Welly K. Hopkins for petitioners in No. 749. Richard J. Connor, John T. Miller, Jr., James B. Henderson and William N. Bonner, Jr. for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp., Seymour B. Quel and Francis I. Howley for the City of New York, and Randall J. LeBoeuf, Jr. for Consolidated Edison Co., respondents. Briefs of amici curiae, in support of the petition in No. 748, were filed by William M. Bennett for the State of California and the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California, and by T. J. Reynolds, Harry P. Letton, Jr., L. T. Rice, Henry F. Lippitt 2d, Milford Springer, Joseph R. Rensch and J. David Mann, Jr. for the Southern California Gas Co. et al. [MAJORITY] Petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted. Cases consolidated and a total of two hours allotted for oral argument. The motion of the Southern California Gas Company et al. for leave to file brief, as amici curiae, in No. 748 is granted. Reported below: 271 F. 2d 942.