Quantum Pipeline Co. v. Illinois Commerce Commission

The petitioners, Quantum Pipeline Company and Seagull Products Pipeline Corporation, appeal the Illinois Commerce Commission’s (Commission’s) order rescinding the petitioners’ certificate authorizing construction of a common carrier pipeline and denying the petitioners’ request for eminent domain authority. We must decide whether the Commission denied the petitioners procedural due process when it revoked their certificate without giving them notice of a violation of their Certificate, and in so doing, we must answer the following questions: (1) Does a liberty or property interest exist that…