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Agenda: Natural Gas Symposium: Contract Solutions For The Future Of Regulatory Environment, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center, University Of Houston. Law Center

Natural Gas Symposium: Contract Solutions for the Future of Regulatory Environment (March 24-25)

Contents:

The natural gas industry in transition / Ruth A. Maurer -- Legislative prospects for wellhead pricing of natural gas / Richard G. Morgan -- Off-system sales : will they ever return? : the interstate side / Robert C. McHugh -- Off-system sales : will they ever return? / Paul F. O'Konski -- Contractual and other considerations affecting producers, pipelines and distributors during current period of market demand constraints / Michael J. Manning -- Section 311 and 312 of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 and Hinshaw pipelines / Lauren Eaton -- Drafting and interpreting sensitive gas purchase contract …

Allocation Of Scarce Goods Under Section 2-615 Of The Uniform Commercial Code: A Comparison Of Some Rival Models, James J. White

Articles

Section 2-615 of the Uniform Commercial Code authorizes a contract seller to allocate goods in short supply when full performance has become commercially impracticable. Most of the cases under and commentary on that section have focused on the issue of commercial impracticability. The allocation aspects of the section have attracted much more modest attention in the cases and in the scholarly journals. The purpose of this article is to examine critically the allocation rule set out in section 2-615(b). That subsection authorizes a seller, upon a finding of commercial impracticability, to allocate "in any manner which is fair and reasonable." …

The Johnson Amendment To The Judicial Code, Edwin C. Goddard

Michigan Law Review

The so-called Johnson bill amending the Judicial Code was passed by Congress and signed by the President on May 14, 1934. The bill was the result of long agitation against the alleged pernicious interference by United States District Courts with rate regulations of the state utility commissions and the state courts. It was charged that the removal of cases from state to federal tribunals was burdening the District Courts and, what was far more serious, was favoring the public utilities and preventing their proper state regulation by submitting controversies to judges having life tenure and who were out of touch …

Administrative Tribunals-Right To Federal Injunction Against Administrative Orders

Michigan Law Review

The public utility commission of Ohio refused to permit the plaintiff motor bus company to operate over a portion of the route for which application was made for a certificate. The plaintiff applied to the federal district court for an injunction against enforcement of the commission's order on the ground that it amounted to a deprivation of property without due process. A temporary injunction was granted. Thereafter, the plaintiff took a statutory appeal to the state supreme court, which affirmed the order, after which the plaintiff sought a permanent injunction in the federal court. Held, the decision of the …

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

Public Utility Valuation, Edwin C. Goddard

Articles

It has been so often remarked that the "valuation" of public utilities is determined by no rule of thumb, that there are no fixed rules or formulas to guide courts or commissions, that determination of value as a rate base is matter of judgment and discretion in each case, Minnesota Rate Cares, 230 U. S. 352, 434, that the statement has come to be believed by reason in part of its much repetition. It is usually accepted as axiomatic. The glorious uncertainty resulting from such an admission will continue so long as judgments of one man or set of men …

Note And Comment, Edwin C. Goddard, Edson R. Sunderland, George D. Clapperton, Herman A. August

Michigan Law Review

Public Utility Valuations and Rates - In comparing the reports of the public utility commissions with the decisions of the courts on questions of valuation of public utilities, nothing is more striking than this-that as time goes on the commissions are growingly impatient of the cost of reproduction theory, while the courts still insist there is no inflexible method of fixing value, but continue to prefer largely figures as to supposed reproduction cost. This attitude of the commissions is remarkable in view of the fact that every finding may be carried to the courts for review and possible reversal. The …