359 U.S. 119

79 S.Ct. 722

3 L.Ed.2d 674

CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., appellants,
v.
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF CALIFORNIA et al.

No. 656.

Supreme Court of the United States

March 23, 1959

Messrs. Roger Arnebergh, Alan G. Campbell and Walhfred Jacobson, for appellants.

Mr. J. Thomason Phelps, for appellees.

Messrs. Arthur T. George, Francis N. Marshall, John Robert Jones, Alvin H. Pelavin and Warren A. Palmer, for appellees Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. and others.

Messrs. John C. Banks, Walter J. Mattison, John C. Melaniphy, J. Elliott Drinard, Claude V. Jones, Charles S. Rhyne and J. Parker Connor, for Member Municipalities of the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, as amici curiae.

Messrs. Archie L. Walters, M. Tellefson, John H. Lauten, Henry McClernan and Everett M. Glenn, for the Cities of Azusa and others, as amici curiae.

Messrs. A. L. Wirin and Fred Okrand, for American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, as amici curiae.

PER CURIAM.

The motion of The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company et al. to be added as parties appellee is granted. The motions to dismiss are granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of a substantial federal question.

Mr. Justice BLACK is of the opinion that probable jurisdiction should be noted.