Legal Opinion
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. v. State Oil & Gas Board
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 24, 1986No. 84-1076PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
We are confronted again with the issue of a state regulation requiring an interstate pipeline to purchase gas from all the parties owning interests in a common gas pool. The purchases would be in proportion to the owners’ respective interests in the pool, and would be compelled even though the pipeline has pre-existing contracts with less than all of the pool’s owners.
This Court, in Northern Natural Gas Co. v. State Corporation Comm’n of Kansas, 372 U. S. 84 (1963), struck down, on pre-emption grounds, a virtually identical regulation. In the present case, however, the Supreme Court of…
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