Southern California Edison Co. v. Federal Power Commission

Unlike the majority, I would reach the question, “. . . whether [the FPC is] empowered to entertain and grant relief on a petition [for extraordinary relief] filed by an intrastate and therefore non-jurisdictional purchaser and distributor of natural gas.” 1 I would hold that the Commission has both the authority and the obligation to entertain petitions for extraordinary relief from ultimate consumers.

I have no quarrel with the majority’s view that the asserted gravity of the energy shortage requires petitioners for extraordinary relief to exhaust all alternative sources of supply, and…