California v. Lo-Vaca Gathering Co.

Today’s decision furnishes a too-ready answer to an intricate, problem of administrative regulation. It re7 fleets the sort of decision that is to be expected when the Court is willing to make a bare choice between two unrefined points of view as to regulatory method, without first being informed by the regulating agency concerned as to its evaluation of the competing factors — something that is indispensable to achieving a well-balanced solution of a problem such as this. The respective positions of the parties here each possesses the capacity to frustrate the scope of natural gas regulation…