Williams Gas Processing-Gulf Coast Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis
475 F.3d 319 · 2006
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Comcast Corp. v. Federal Communications Commission (2009), National Ass'n of Clean Air Agencies v. Environmental Protection Agency (2007)
13 federal appellate · 7 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · PDK Laboratories Inc. v. United States Drug Enforcement Administration · Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency · Nuclear Energy Institute, Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency
Most-quoted passages
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“When an agency relies on multiple grounds for its decision, some of which are invalid, [courts] may only sustain the decision where one is valid and the agency would clearly have acted on that ground even if the other were unavailable.” Williams Gas Processing-Gulf Coast, Co., L.P. v. FERC, 475 F.3d 319, 321 (D.C.Cir.2006). Since the Court has concluded that all three statutory grounds are valid, it need not address the Bank's argument that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Arbitrary and capricious review strictly prohibits us from upholding agency action based only on our best guess as to what reasoning truly motivated it.”). 12 .In its response to Amarillo VAMC’s request for a § 7422 determination, the Union argued that the 2010 Decision Document could not support Amarillo VAMC’s position. See A69-70. In its motion for summary judgment and in its reply and opposition, the Union contends that the Secretary’s”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the challenges to the Commission's 2005 Transco Jurisdictional Order and 2005 Transco Rehearing Order are at the heart of the petition for review in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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