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UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA v. UDALL

No. 15918.

289 F.2d 790 (1961)

UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Appellant, v. Stewart L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Max Barash, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. A. Andrew Hauk, Los Angeles, Cal., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Harold S. Harrison, Attorney, Department of Justice, with whom Messrs. Roger P. Marquis and Thomas L. McKevitt, Attorneys, Department of Justice, were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. S. Billingsley Hill, Attorney, Department of Justice, also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before BAZELON, BASTIAN and BURGER, Circuit Judges.

BAZELON, Circuit Judge.

In January 1954, the Union Oil Company of California, as assignee of numerous oil shale placer locations made on public lands in Colorado in 1918 and 1919, filed an application with the Secretary of the Interior for issuance of a patent covering those lands.1 In this complaint for equitable relief, Union alleges that the Secretary had withheld issuance of the patent pending a contest proceeding which he has required...

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