OLYMPIC REFINING COMPANY v. CARTER

No. 19011.

332 F.2d 260 (1964)

OLYMPIC REFINING COMPANY, a corporation, Petitioner, v. The Honorable James M. CARTER, Judge of the United States District Court of the Southern District of California, Southern Division, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Alioto and Maxwell M. Blecher, San Francisco, Cal., for petitioner.

James M. Carter, San Diego, Cal., for respondent.

William H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Hummel and Michael I. Miller, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for intervenor United States.

William E. Mussman, Francis R. Kirkham, David T. Steffen, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for intervenor Standard Oil Co. of California.

S. R. Vandivort and C. D. Walz, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor Shell Oil Co.

L. A. Gibbons, D. C. Gregg, and A. A. Hauk, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor Union Oil Co. of California.

Harold C. Morton, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor Conservation Committee of California Oil Producers.

Edmund D. Buckley, Ralph D. Copley, Jr., Wayne H. Knight, Overton, Lyman & Prince, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor Tidewater Oil Co.

George W. Jansen and Miles W. Newby, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor Texaco, Inc.

William J. DeMartini, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor Richfield Oil Corp.

P. E. Bermingham, Sims Hamilton, Howard Painter, Los Angeles, Cal., for intervenor Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc.

Before HAMLEY, KOELSCH and DUNIWAY, Circuit Judges.


HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:

This proceeding was brought to vacate three protective orders entered in a Government antitrust suit, so that access could be gained to certain documents now withheld from public scrutiny. The district court entered an order denying the motion to vacate the protective orders, and this review was then instituted.

On February 28, 1958, Olympic Refining Company (Olympic) brought a treble-damage antitrust suit, referred to herein as the...

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