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KING v. UDALL

Civ. A. No. 2750-64.

266 F.Supp. 747 (1967)

John J. KING and Dorothy W. King, Plaintiffs, v. Stewart L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior et al., Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

April 11, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Holmberg, Denver, Colo., and R. Timothy Hanlon, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Thomas L. McKevitt, Washington, D. C., for defendant Stewart L. Udall.

Dennis G. Lyons and Daniel A. Rezneck, Washington, D. C., for defendant Sun Oil Co.

James W. McDade, Washington, D. C., for defendant Humble Oil & Refining Co.

Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., for defendant intervenor Standard Oil Co. of California.

OPINION

HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

This action was commenced against the Secretary of the Interior, and was brought by unsuccessful applicants for a lease on certain public lands located in Alaska that were not within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field.

The authority of the Secretary to lease such lands is contained in the so-called Mineral Lands Leasing Act, 30 U.S.C. § 226. Subsection (c) of that section provides...

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