Legal Opinion
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Public Service Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 8, 1948No. 69PublishedCited by 262 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rutledge
Broadly the question is whether Indiana has power to regulate sales of natural gas made by an interstate pipe-line carrier direct to industrial consumers in Indiana. More narrowly we are asked to decide whether the commerce clause, Const. Art. I, § 8, by its own force forbids the appellee, Public Service Commission, to require appellant to file tariffs, rules and regulations, annual reports, etc., as steps in a comprehensive plan of regulation preliminary to possible exercise of jurisdiction over rates and service in such sales.
Panhandle Eastern transports natural gas from Texas and Kansas…
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