American Public Power Association v. Power Authority of New York/Opinion of the Court

Messrs. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., and John R. Davison, Sol. Gen., for respondent State of New York.

Messrs. Thomas F. Moore, Jr., Frederick P. Lee and Ralph A. Gilchrist, for respondent Power Authority of New York.

Messrs. Edmund G. Brown, Atty. Gen. and Charles E. Corker, Deputy Attorney General, State of California; Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen. and John B. Barnard, J., Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Colorado Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen., State of Nevada; Fred M. Standley, Atty. Gen. and Paul L. Billhymer, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of New Mexico; Will Wilson, Atty. Gen., James N. Ludlum, First Asst. Atty. Gen., and James W. Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Texas; E. R. Callister, Atty. Gen., State of Utah; Thomas O. Miller, Atty. Gen., State of Wyoming, as amici curiae.

On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

PER CURIAM.

The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is vacated and the case is remanded to that court with directions to dismiss the petition upon the ground that the cause is moot.