UNITED STATES v. UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA

No. 19179.

343 F.2d 29 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

March 18, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. H. Orrick, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert B. Hummel, Geo. R. Kucik, attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Stanley E. Disney, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Moses Lasky, Richard Haas, Joseph M. Livermore, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., L. A. Gibbons, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before ORR, JERTBERG and MERRILL, Circuit Judges.


ORR, Circuit Judge:

On August 19, 1963, the Department of Justice of the United States issued a Civil Investigative Demand to the Union Oil Company of California. The demand recited that it was issued pursuant to the Antitrust Civil Process Act (herein ACPA), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1311-1314, and requested documents relating to an investigation of "proposed acquisitions of fertilizer companies by petroleum companies", for the purpose of "ascertaining whether there...

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