Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Chapman v. Federal Power Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 16, 1953No. 28PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
In these two cases, the Secretary of the Interior and an association of nonprofit rural electric cooperatives have challenged the authority of the Federal Power Commission to grant to the respondent power company, VEPCO, a license to construct a hydroelectric generating station at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. They claim that Congress, by approving a comprehensive plan set out in the Flood Control Act of 1944 for improvement of the Roanoke River Basin, has withdrawn all eleven sites proposed for development in the plan, including Roanoke Rapids, from the licensing jurisdiction of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- First Iowa Hydro-Electric Cooperative v. Federal Power CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- United States Ex Rel. Chapman, Secretary of the Interior v. Federal Power Commission Virginia Rea Ass'n v. Federal Power CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1951
3Cited by139 opinions
- United States v. NixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Scanwell Laboratories, Inc. v. John H. Shaffer, Administrator (Acting) of the Federal Aviation AdministrationCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1970
- State ex rel. Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers v. ShewardOhio Supreme Court · 1999
- Andrus v. Sierra ClubSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- United States v. Public Utilities CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
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