VIRGINIA PETROLEUM JOBBERS ASSN. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION

No. 427.

368 U.S. 940 (1961)

VIRGINIA PETROLEUM JOBBERS ASSN. v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 11, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryce Rea, Jr. for petitioner. Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Orrick, Morton Hollander, Ralph S. Spritzer and Howard E. Wahrenbrock for the Federal Power Commission, and Donald E. Van Koughnet for the Blue Ridge Gas Company, respondents.


Certiorari denied.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK, with whom MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS concurs, dissenting from denial of certiorari.

This case raises a very important question which I think we should grant certiorari to settle. That question is whether the Federal Power Commission has authority to refuse to summon a witness to testify to relevant facts in a hearing before it on the ground that the party summoning that witness refuses to compensate him as an expert witness over...

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