Interstate Nat. Gas Co. v. Southern California Gas Co., No. 12828-WB.
| Court | United States District Courts. 9th Circuit. United States District Court (Southern District of California) |
| Writing for the Court | T. J. Reynolds, L. T. Rice, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant, Southern Cal. Gas Co |
| Citation | 103 F. Supp. 317 |
| Parties | INTERSTATE NATURAL GAS CO. v. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS CO. et al. |
| Decision Date | 03 March 1952 |
| Docket Number | No. 12828-WB. |
103 F. Supp. 317
INTERSTATE NATURAL GAS CO.
v.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS CO. et al.
No. 12828-WB.
United States District Court S. D. California, Central Division.
March 3, 1952.
Guthrie, Darling & Shattuck, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.
T. J. Reynolds, L. T. Rice, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant, Southern Cal. Gas Co.
Milford Springer, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant, Southern Counties Gas Co.
Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Turner H. McBaine, and Byron E. Kabot, all of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant, Southern Cal. Gas Co. and Southern Counties Gas Co.
BYRNE, District Judge.
Plaintiff's original complaint was held by this court, in a memorandum of decision, 102 F.Supp. 685, to be vulnerable to a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction of the subject matter of the action due to plaintiff's failure to exhaust its administrative remedies.
An amended complaint has been filed in which plaintiff seeks to avoid the impact of the court's opinion by the addition of allegations of facts which it contends, if true, resulted in an exhaustion of its administrative remedies. These allegations fail to meet the force of the opinion. They refer to oral requests that plaintiff made of the Federal Power Commission to compel the defendants to file rates. The Rules of Practice of the Federal Power Commission (18 C.F.R. 1.6), of which this court may take judicial notice, require that "Formal complaints shall be in writing and under oath", and even informal complaints shall be in writing. If the court were to construe the complaint as alleging that the Commission had waived the formal requirements and granted a hearing under Section 717d(a), Title 15 U.S.C.A., it would not avail the plaintiff. Section 717r provides for administrative and judicial review at the instance of an "aggrieved person", and there is no allegation that these remedies were pursued.
With respect to the allegations that the Commission refused to permit the plaintiff to intervene in a collateral proceeding not involving the defendants who have appeared in this action, aside from the question of materiality, these allegations fall short for the same reasons as those heretofore referred to. Refusal of permission to intervene in a proceeding under 717n did not preclude the plaintiff from filing a complaint under 717d and pursuing its administrative remedies any more than the oral conversations did.
The plaintiff has made no effort to allege that a hearing was had...
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