Task: sc_petitioner

What follows is an opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States. Your task is to identify the petitioner of the case. The petitioner is the party who petitioned the Supreme Court to review the case. This party is variously known as the petitioner or the appellant. Characterize the petitioner as the Court's opinion identifies them.

Identify the petitioner by the label given to the party in the opinion or judgment of the Court except where the Reports title a party as the "United States" or as a named state. Textual identification of parties is typically provided prior to Part I of the Court's opinion. The official syllabus, the summary that appears on the title page of the case, may be consulted as well. In describing the parties, the Court employs terminology that places them in the context of the specific lawsuit in which they are involved. For example, "employer" rather than "business" in a suit by an employee; as a "minority," "female," or "minority female" employee rather than "employee" in a suit alleging discrimination by an employer.

Also note that the Court's characterization of the parties applies whether the petitioner is actually single entity or whether many other persons or legal entities have associated themselves with the lawsuit. That is, the presence of the phrase, et al., following the name of a party does not preclude the Court from characterizing that party as though it were a single entity. Thus, identify a single petitioner, regardless of how many legal entities were actually involved. If a state (or one of its subdivisions) is a party, note only that a state is a party, not the state's name.

Justice BREYERdelivered the opinion of the Court.
In this case, a group of manufacturers, hospitals, and other institutions that buy natural gas directly from interstate pipelines sued the pipelines, claiming that they engaged in behavior that violated state antitrust laws. The pipelines' behavior affected bothfederally regulated wholesale natural-gas prices andnonfederally regulated retailnatural-gas prices. The question is whether the federal Natural Gas Act pre-empts these lawsuits. We have said that, in passing the Act, "Congress occupied the field of matters relating to wholesale sales and transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce." Schneidewind v. ANR Pipeline Co.,485 U.S. 293, 305, 108 S.Ct. 1145, 99 L.Ed.2d 316 (1988). Nevertheless, for the reasons given below, we conclude that the Act does not pre-empt the state-law antitrust suits at issue here.
I
A
The Supremacy Clause provides that "the Laws of the United States" (as well as treaties and the Constitution itself) "shall be the supreme Law of the Land... any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the Contrary notwithstanding." Art. VI, cl. 2. Congress may consequently pre-empt, i.e.,invalidate, a state law through federal legislation. It may do so through express language in a statute. But even where, as here, a statute does not refer expressly to pre-emption, Congress may implicitly pre-empt a state law, rule, or other state action. See Sprietsma v. Mercury Marine,537 U.S. 51, 64, 123 S.Ct. 518, 154 L.Ed.2d 466 (2002).
It may do so either through "field" pre-emption or "conflict" pre-emption. As to the former, Congress may have intended "to foreclose any state regulation in the area," irrespective of whether state law is consistent or inconsistent with "federal standards." Arizona v. United States,567 U.S. ----, ----, 132 S.Ct. 2492, 2502, 183 L.Ed.2d 351 (2012)(emphasis added). In such situations, Congress has forbidden the State to take action in the fieldthat the federal statute pre-empts.
By contrast, conflict pre-emption exists where "compliance with both state and federal law is impossible," or where "the state law'stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.' " California v. ARC America Corp.,490 U.S. 93, 100, 101, 109 S.Ct. 1661, 104 L.Ed.2d 86 (1989). In either situation, federal law must prevail.
No one here claims that any relevant federal statute expressly pre-empts state antitrust lawsuits. Nor have the parties argued at any length that these state suits conflict with federal law. Rather, the interstate pipeline companies (petitioners here) argue that Congress implicitly " 'occupied the field of mattersrelating to wholesale sales and transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce.' " Brief for Petitioners 18 (quoting Schneidewind, supra,at 305, 108 S.Ct. 1145(emphasis added)). And they contend that the state antitrust claims advanced by their direct-sales customers (respondents here) fall within that field. The United States, supporting the pipelines, argues similarly. See Brief for United States as Amicus Curiae15. Since the parties have argued this case almost exclusively in terms of field pre-emption, we consider only the field pre-emption question.
B
1
Federal regulation of the natural-gas industry began at a time when the industry was divided into three segments. See 1 Regulation of the Natural Gas Industry § 1.01 (W. Mogel ed. 2008) (hereinafter Mogel); General Motors Corp. v. Tracy,519 U.S. 278, 283, 117 S.Ct. 811, 136 L.Ed.2d 761 (1997). First, natural-gas producers sunk wells in large oil and gas fields (such as the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico). They gathered the gas, brought it to transportation points, and left it to interstate gas pipelines to transport the gas to distant markets. Second, interstate pipelines shipped the gas from the field to cities and towns across the Nation. Third, local gas distributors bought the gas from the interstate pipelines and resold it to business and residential customers within their localities.
Originally, the States regulated all three segments of the industry. See 1 Mogel § 1.03. But in the early 20th century, this Court held that the Commerce Clause forbids the States to regulate the second part of the business-i.e.,the interstate shipment and sale of gas to local distributors for resale. See, e.g.,Public Util. Comm'n of R.I. v. Attleboro Steam & Elec. Co.,273 U.S. 83, 89-90, 47 S.Ct. 294, 71 L.Ed. 549 (1927);
Missouri ex rel. Barrett v. Kansas Natural Gas Co.,265 U.S. 298, 307-308, 44 S.Ct. 544, 68 L.Ed. 1027 (1924). These holdings left a regulatory gap. Congress enacted the Natural Gas Act, 52 Stat. 821, to fill it. See Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Wisconsin,347 U.S. 672, 682-684, n. 13, 74 S.Ct. 794, 98 L.Ed. 1035 (1954)(citing H.R.Rep. No. 709, 75th Cong., 1st Sess., 1-2 (1937); S.Rep. No. 1162, 75th Cong., 1st Sess., 1-2 (1937)).
The Act, in § 5(a), gives rate-setting authority to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, formerly the Federal Power Commission (FPC)). That authority allows FERC to determine whether "any rate, charge, or classification... collected by any natural-gas company in connection with any transportation or sale of natural gas, subject to the jurisdiction of [FERC]," or "any rule, regulation, practice, or contract affecting suchrate, charge, or classification is unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential." 15 U.S.C. § 717d(a)(emphasis added). As the italicized words make clear, § 5(a) limits the scope of FERC's authority to activities "in connection with any transportation or sale of natural gas, subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission." Ibid. (emphasis added). And the Act, in § 1(b), limits FERC's "jurisdiction" to (1) "the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce," (2) "the sale in interstate commerce of natural gas for resale," and (3) "natural-gas companies engaged in such transportation or sale." § 717(b). The Act leaves regulation of other portions of the industry-such as production, local distribution facilities, and direct sales-to the States. See Northwest Central Pipeline Corp. v. State Corporation Comm'n of Kan.,489 U.S. 493, 507, 109 S.Ct. 1262, 103 L.Ed.2d 509 (1989)(Section 1(b) of the Act "expressly" provides that "States retain jurisdiction over intrastatetransportation, local distribution, and distribution facilities, and over 'the production or gathering of natural gas' ").
To simplify our discussion, we shall describe the firms that engage in interstate transportation as "jurisdictional sellers" or "interstate pipelines" (though various brokers and others may also fall within the Act's jurisdictional scope). Similarly, we shall refer to the sales over which FERC has jurisdiction as "jurisdictional sales" or "wholesale sales."
2
Until the 1970's, natural-gas regulation roughly tracked the industry model we described above. Interstate pipelines would typically buy gas from field producers and resell it to local distribution companies for resale. See Tracy, supra,at 283, 117 S.Ct. 811. FERC (or FPC), acting under the authority of the Natural Gas Act, would set interstate pipeline wholesale rates using classical "cost-of-service" ratemaking methods. See Public Serv. Comm'n of N.Y. v. Mid-Louisiana Gas Co.,463 U.S. 319, 328, 103 S.Ct. 3024, 77 L.Ed.2d 668 (1983). That is, FERC would determine a pipeline's revenue requirement by calculating the costs of providing its services, including operating and maintenance expenses, depreciation expenses, taxes, and a reasonable profit. See FERC, Cost-of-Service Rates Manual 6 (June 1999). FERC would then set wholesale rates at a level designed to meet the pipeline's revenue requirement.
Deregulation of the natural-gas industry, however, brought about changes in FERC's approach. In the 1950's, this Court had held that the Natural Gas Act required regulation of prices at the interstate pipelines' buying end-i.e., the prices at which field producers sold natural gas to interstate pipelines. Phillips Petroleum Co., supra,at 682, 685, 74 S.Ct. 794. By the 1970's, many in Congress thought that such efforts to regulate field prices had jeopardized natural-gas supplies in an industry already dependent "on the caprice of nature." FPC v. Hope Natural Gas Co.,320 U.S. 591, 630, 64 S.Ct. 281, 88 L.Ed. 333 (1944)(opinion of Jackson, J.); see id.,at 629, 64 S.Ct. 281(recognizing that "the wealth of Midas and the wit of man cannot produce... a natural gas field"). Hoping to avoid future shortages, Congress enacted forms of field price deregulation designed to rely upon competition, rather than regulation, to keep field prices low. See, e.g.,Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, 92 Stat. 3409, codified in part at 15 U.S.C. § 3301 et seq.(phasing out regulation of wellhead prices charged by producers of natural gas); Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989, 103 Stat. 157 (removing price controls on wellhead sales as of January 1993).
FERC promulgated new regulations designed to further this process of deregulation. See, e.g., Regulation of Natural Gas Pipelines after Partial Wellhead Decontrol, 50 Fed.Reg. 42408 (1985)(allowing "open access" to pipelines so that consumers could pay to ship their own gas). Most important here, FERC adopted an approach that relied on the competitive marketplace, rather than classical regulatory rate-setting, as the main mechanism for keeping wholesalenatural-gas rates at a reasonable level. Order No. 636, issued in 1992, allowed FERC to issue blanket certificates that permitted jurisdictional sellers (typically interstate pipelines) to charge market-based rates for gas, provided that FERC had first determined that the sellers lacked market power. See 57 Fed.Reg. 57957-57958 (1992); id.,at 13270.
After the issuance of this order, FERC's oversight of the natural-gas market largely consisted of (1) ex ante examinations of jurisdictional sellers' market power, and (2) the availability of a complaint process under § 717d(a). See Brief for United States as Amicus Curiae4. The new system also led many large gas consumers-such as industrial and commercial users-to buy their own gas directly from gas producers, and to arrange (and often pay separately) for transportation from the field to the place of consumption. See Tracy,519 U.S., at 284, 117 S.Ct. 811. Insofar as interstate pipelines sold gas to such consumers, they sold it for direct consumption rather than resale.
3
The free-market system for setting interstate pipeline rates turned out to be less than perfect. Interstate pipelines, distributing companies, and many of the customers who bought directly from the pipelines found that they had to rely on privately published price indices to determine appropriate prices for their natural-gas contracts. These indices listed the prices at which natural gas was being sold in different (presumably competitive) markets across the country. The information on which these indices were based was voluntarily reported by natural-gas traders.
In 2003, FERC found that the indices were inaccurate, in part because much of the information that natural-gas traders reported had been false. See FERC, Final Report on Price Manipulation in Western Markets (Mar. 2003), App. 88-89. FERC found that false reporting had involved "inflating the volume of trades, omitting trades, and adjusting the price of trades." Id.,at 88. That is, sometimes those who reported information simply fabricated it. Other times, the information reported reflected "wash trades," i.e.,"prearranged pair[s] of trades of the same good between the same parties, involving no economic risk and no net change in beneficial ownership." Id.,at 215. FERC concluded that these "efforts to manipulate price indices compiled by trade publications" had helped raise "to extraordinary levels" the prices of both jurisdictional sales (that is, interstate pipeline sales for resale) and nonjurisdictional direct sales to ultimate consumers. Id.,at 86, 85.
After issuing its final report on price manipulation in western markets, FERC issued a Code of Conduct. That code amended all blanket certificates to prohibit jurisdictional sellers "from engaging in actions without a legitimate business purpose that manipulate or attempt to manipulate market conditions, including wash trades and collusion." 68 Fed.Reg. 66324 (2003). The code also required jurisdictional companies, when they provided information to natural-gas index publishers, to "provide accurate and factual information, and not knowingly submit false or misleading information or omit material information to any such publisher."Id.,at 66337. At the same time, FERC issued a policy statement setting forth "minimum standards for creation and publication of any energy price index," and "for reporting transaction data to index developers." Price Discovery in Natural Gas and Elec. Markets,104 FERC ¶ 61,121, pp. 61,407, 61,408 (2003). Finally, FERC, after finding that certain jurisdictional sellers had "engaged in wash trading... that resulted in the manipulation of [natural-gas] prices," terminated those sellers' blanket marketing certificates. Enron Power Marketing, Inc.,103 FERC ¶ 61,343, p. 62,303 (2003).
Congress also took steps to address these problems. In particular, it passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005, 119 Stat. 594, which gives FERC the authority to issue rules and regulations to prevent "any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance" by "any entity... in connection with the purchase or sale of natural gas or the purchase or sale of transportation services subject to the jurisdiction of" FERC, 15 U.S.C. § 717c-1.
C
We now turn to the cases before us. Respondents, as we have said, bought large quantities of natural gas directly from interstate pipelines for their own consumption. They believe that they overpaid in these transactions due to the interstate pipelines' manipulation of the natural-gas indices. Based on this belief, they filed state-law antitrust suits against petitioners in state and federal courts. See App. 244-246 (alleging violations of Wis. Stat. §§ 133.03, 133.14, 133.18); see also App. 430-433 (same); id.,at 519-521 (same); id.,at 362-364 (alleging violations of Kansas Restraint of Trade Act, Kan. Stat. Ann. § 50-101 et seq.); App. 417-419 (alleging violations of Missouri Antitrust Law, Mo.Rev.Stat. §§ 416.011-416.161). The pipelines removed all the state cases to federal court, where they were consolidated and sent for pretrial proceedings to the Federal District Court for the District of Nevada. See 28 U.S.C. § 1407.
The pipelines then moved for summary judgment on the ground that the Natural Gas Act pre-empted respondents' state-law antitrust claims. The District Court granted their motion. It concluded that the pipelines were "jurisdictional sellers," i.e.,"natural gas companies engaged in" the "transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce." Order in No. 03-cv-1431 (D Nev., July 18, 2011), pp. 4, 11. And it held that respondents' claims, which were "aimed at" these sellers' "alleged practices of false price reporting, wash trades, and anticompetitive collusive behavior" were pre-empted because "such practices," not only affected nonjurisdictional direct-sale prices but also "directly affect[ed]" jurisdictional (i.e.,wholesale) rates. Id.,at 36-37.
The Ninth Circuit reversed. It emphasized that the price-manipulation of which respondents complained affected not only jurisdictional (i.e.,wholesale) sales, but also nonjurisdictional (i.e.,retail) sales. The court construed the Natural Gas Act's pre-emptive scope narrowly in light of Congress' intent-manifested in § 1(b) of the Act-to preserve for the States the authority to regulate nonjurisdictional sales.And it held that the Act did not pre-empt state-law claims aimed at obtaining damages for excessively high retail natural-gas prices stemming from interstate pipelines' price manipulation, even if the manipulation raised wholesalerates as well. See In re Western States Wholesale Natural Gas Antitrust Litigation,715 F.3d 716, 729-736 (2013).
The pipelines sought certiorari. They asked us to resolve confusion in the lower courts as to whether the Natural Gas Act pre-empts retail customers' state antitrust law challenges to practices that also affect wholesale rates. Compare id.,at 729-736, with Leggett v. Duke Energy Corp.,308 S.W.3d 843 (Tenn.2010). We granted the petition.
II
Petitioners, supported by the United States, argue that their customers' state antitrust lawsuits are within the field that the Natural Gas Act pre-empts. See Brief for Petitioners 18 (citing Schneidewind,485 U.S., at 305, 108 S.Ct. 1145); Brief for United States as Amicus Curiae13 (same). They point out that respondents' antitrust claims target anticompetitive activities that affected wholesale (as well as retail) rates. See Brief for Petitioners 2. They add that the Natural Gas Act expressly grants FERC authority to keep wholesale rates at reasonable levels. See ibid. (citing 15 U.S.C. §§ 717(b), 717d(a)). In exercising this authority, FERC has prohibited the very kind of anticompetitive conduct that the state actions attack. See Part I-B-3, supra.And, petitioners contend, letting these actions proceed will permit state antitrust courts to reach conclusions about that conduct that differ from those that FERC might reach or has already reached. Accordingly, petitioners argue, respondents' state-law antitrust suits fall within the pre-empted field.
A
Petitioners' arguments are forceful, but we cannot accept their conclusion. As we have repeatedly stressed, the Natural Gas Act "was drawn with meticulous regard for the continued exercise of state power, not to handicap or dilute it in any way." Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. v. Public Serv. Comm'n of Ind.,332 U.S. 507, 517-518, 68 S.Ct. 190, 92 L.Ed. 128 (1947); see also Northwest Central,489 U.S., at 511, 109 S.Ct. 1262(the "legislative history of the [Act] is replete with assurances that the Act 'takes nothing from the State [regulatory] commissions' " (quoting 81 Cong. Rec. 6721 (1937))). Accordingly, where (as here) a state law can be applied to nonjurisdictional as well as jurisdictional sales, we must proceed cautiously, finding pre-emption only where detailed examination convinces us that a matter falls within the pre-empted field as defined by our precedents. See Panhandle Eastern, supra,at 516-518, 68 S.Ct. 190; Interstate Natural Gas Co. v. FPC,331 U.S. 682, 689-693, 67 S.Ct. 1482, 91 L.Ed. 1742 (1947).
Those precedents emphasize the importance of considering the targetat which the state law aimsin determining whether that law is pre-empted. For example, in Northern Natural Gas Co. v. State Corporation Comm'n of Kan.,372 U.S. 84, 83 S.Ct. 646, 9 L.Ed.2d 601 (1963), the Court said that it had "consistently recognized"
that the "significant distinction" for purposes of pre-emption in the natural-gas context is the distinction between "measures aimed directly atinterstate purchasers and wholesales for resale, and those aimed at" subjects left to the States to regulate. Id.,at 94, 83 S.Ct. 646(emphasis added). And, in Northwest Central,the Court found that the Natural Gas Act did not pre-empt a state regulation concerning the timing of gas production from a gas field within the State, even though the regulation might have affected the costs of and the prices of interstate wholesale sales, i.e.,jurisdictional sales. 489 U.S., at 514, 109 S.Ct. 1262. In reaching this conclusion, the Court explained that the state regulation aimed primarily at "protect[ing] producers'... rights-a matter firmly on the States' side of that dividing line." Ibid.The Court contrasted this state regulation with the state orders at issue in Northern Natural,which " 'invalidly invade[d] the federal agency's exclusive domain' precisely because" they were " 'unmistakably and unambiguously directed at purchasers.' " Id.,at 513, 109 S.Ct. 1262(quoting Northern Natural, supra,at 92, 83 S.Ct. 646; emphasis added). Here, too, the lawsuits are directed at practices affecting retailrates-which are "firmly on the States' side of that dividing line."
Petitioners argue that Schneidewindconstitutes contrary authority. In that case, the Court found pre-empted a state law that required public utilities, such as interstate pipelines crossing the State, to obtain state approval before issuing long-term securities. 485 U.S., at 306-309, 108 S.Ct. 1145. But the Court there thought that the State's securities regulation was aimed directly at interstate pipelines. It wrote that the state law was designed to keep "a natural gas company from raising its equity levels above a certain point" in order to keep the company's

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价. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
藏. National Labor Relations Board, or regional office or officer
命. National Mediation Board
应. National Railroad Adjustment Board
看. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
索. National Security Agency
资. Office of Economic Opportunity
产. Office of Management and Budget
串. Office of Price Administration, or Price Administrator
布. Office of Personnel Management
原. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
知. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
级. Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
水. Patent Office, or Commissioner of, or Board of Appeals of
击. Pay Board (established under the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970)
好. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
物. U.S. Public Health Service
放. Postal Rate Commission
亿. Provider Reimbursement Review Board
经. Renegotiation Board
模. Railroad Adjustment Board
之. Railroad Retirement Board
台. Subversive Activities Control Board
州. Small Business Administration
配. Securities and Exchange Commission
画. Social Security Administration or Commissioner
统. Selective Service System
共. Department or Secretary of the Treasury
连. Tennessee Valley Authority
海. United States Forest Service
节. United States Parole Commission
退. Postal Service and Post Office, or Postmaster General, or Postmaster
間. United States Sentencing Commission
比. Veterans' Administration
问. War Production Board
至. Wage Stabilization Board
备. General Land Office of Commissioners
你. Transportation Security Administration
黑. Surface Transportation Board
或. U.S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.
与. Reconstruction Finance Corp.
影. Department or Secretary of Homeland Security
话. Unidentifiable
视. International Entity
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