Court Opinion

ID: 9479120
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:08:55.74768+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:50.439365
License: Public Domain

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur fully in the Chief Judge’s opinion for us. I write separately to emphasize some fundamental things. FERC is supreme. The interpretation and application of Reg. 270.207 is that prescribed by FERC in Columbia Gas. Happily the interpretation/application of the regulation by the Mississippi Supreme Court conforms to that announced by FERC. Indeed, the FERC dicta, of which Southern complains, substantially parallels what the Supreme Court of Mississippi pronounces. Instead of there being a challenge to the exclusive power of FERC to determine the basic question1 this court, by its analysis, makes it constitutionally possible for both tribunals working in harmony to be useful forces in bringing about a just, completely lawful disposition with complete avoidance of wasteful judicial resources.

. This lurking possibility might have brought about the Supreme Court's request that the Solicitor General file a response to the application for certiorari to the Supreme Court of Mississippi. — U.S.-, 109 S.Ct. 216, 102 L.Ed.2d 207 (1988).