United States DC Circuit

Orders asserting jurisdiction over a natural gas pipeline off the coast of Louisiana are vacated where respondent commission neither explained its action as consistent with precedent nor justified it as a reasoned and permissible shift in policy.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/20/2006
• Decided 12/19/2006
• Published 12/19/2006

Judges

• Before:  SENTELLE and TATEL, Circuit Judges, and EDWARDS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James T. McManus argued the cause for petitioners.   With him on the briefs were Joseph S. Koury, Mari M. Ramsey, and David A. Glenn., Thomas J. Eastment argued the cause for intervenors Dominion Exploration & Production, Inc., et al.   With him on the brief were Adam J. White, James M. Costan, Charles J. McClees, Douglas W. Rasch, Bruce A. Connell, and Frederick T. Kolb.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carol J. Banta, Attorney, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, argued the cause for respondent.   On the brief were John S. Moot, General Counsel, and Robert H. Solomon, Solicitor.