Association of Oil Pipe Lines v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Kaneb Pipe Line Operating Partnership, L.P., Intervenors

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “An agency is free to adjust or abandon its proposals in light of public comments or internal agency reconsideration without having to start another round of rulemaking.”
• “Because the subject of our scrutiny is a ratemaking—and thus an agency decision involving complex industry analyses and difficult policy choices—the court will be particularly deferential to the Commission’s expertise.”
• skewed data distribution required outlier elimination to avoid windfall profits to many oil pipelines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).