FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION v. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE CO. et al. (1967)

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FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION v. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE CO. et al.
Term: 1966
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 1967
Decided: March 13, 1967
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • Earl Warren • Byron White
Dissenting
William Douglas • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart

FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION v. UNITED GAS PIPE LINE CO. et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 13, 1967. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1967.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: gas pipeline (cf. federal transportation regulation: pipeline)
  • Petitioner: Federal Power Commission
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Pipe line company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 386 U.S. 237
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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