Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Natural Gas Pipeline Co. v. Panoma Corp.
Nat. Gas Pipeline Co. v. Panoma Corp., 75 S. Ct. 576 (1955)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1955-04-11
- Topic
- general
holding that the federal immigration law word “conviction” requires “finality” despite state law precedent suggesting the contrary | holding that Oklahoma law was pre-empted
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In these cases Oklahoma has attempted to fix a minimum price to be paid for natural gas, after its production and gathering has ended, by a company which transports the gas for resale in interstate commerce. We held in Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin, 347 U. S. 672, that
We disagree with the contention of the appellees that Cities Service Gas Co. v. Peerless Oil and Gas Co., 340 U. S. 179, and Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Oklahoma, 340 U. S. 190, are applicable here. In those cases we were dealing with constitutional questions and not the construction of the Natural Gas Act. The latter question was specifically not passed upon in those cases.
Reversed.