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Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin

346 U.S. 934 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1954-01-18 Docket No. 280; No. 281 English

Judges Mr. Justice Black dissents. The motion for leave to file brief of the Independent Petroleum Assn, et al., as amici curiae, is denied.

Delivered by Majority

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No. 280.
No. 281.
Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin et al.; and Texas et al. v. Wisconsin et al.
Rayburn L.

On petitions for rehearing and petitions for writs of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Petitions for rehearing granted. The orders entered November 30, 1953, denying certiorari, 346 U. S. 896 , are vacated and the petitions for writs of certio-rari are granted.

Mr. Justice Black dissents. The motion for leave to file brief of the Independent Petroleum Assn, et al., as amici curiae, is denied.

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Foster, Harry D. Turner and Hugh B. Cox for petitioner in No. 280. John Ben Shepperd, Attorney General, and Charles E. Crenshaw, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Texas et al., Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General, for the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma, and Richard H. Robinson, Attorney General, George A. Graham, Special Assistant Attorney General, and L. C. White for the State of New Mexico et al., petitioners in No. 281. A brief of amici curiae urging that the petitions be granted was filed on behalf of the States of Louisiana, by Fred S. LeBlanc, Attorney General; Colorado, by Duke W. Dunbar, Attorney General, and Wilbur Rocchio, Assistant Attorney General; Mississippi, by /. P. Coleman, Attorney General; North Dakota, by E. T. Christianson, Attorney General; Wyoming, by Howard Black, Attorney General; and the State Corporation Commission of Kansas, by Jay Kyle, General Counsel.

Reported below: 92 U. S. App. D. C. 284 , 205

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