Legal Opinion
Mississippi River Fuel Corp. v. Federal Power Commission
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 28, 1947No. 9181PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRETTYMAN, Associate Justice.
This is a rate case and is before us on a petition to review and set aside an order of the Federal Power Commission. Petitioner is a natural gas pipeline company.
Petitioner’s first point relates to the 6% rate of return found by the Commission to be reasonable. It claims that this finding does not accord with the precepts of fair play, because, it says, the whole hearing procedure was upon an assumed 6%% rate of return, and a 6% rate was first mentioned in the principal brief of Commission counsel before the Commission. It further says that in eleven prior natural…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Federal Power Commission v. Natural Gas Pipeline Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. Federal Power CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- National Labor Relations Board v. Donnelly Garment Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
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3Cited by63 opinions
- City of Chicago, Illinois v. Federal Power Commission, Pipeline Production Group, IntervenorsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
- United Distribution Companies v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Windward Energy & Marketing Company, IntervenorsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1996
- Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D. C. Transit System, Inc., IntervenorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Williams v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1968
- Johnston Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
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