TEXACO, INC. v. HICKEL

No. 23097.

437 F.2d 636 (1970)

TEXACO, INC. v. Walter J. HICKEL, Secretary of the Interior, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George S. Swarth, Atty., Department of Justice, with whom Messrs. Edmund B. Clark, Attorney, Department of Justice, and Gerald D. Secundy, Attorney, Department of Justice, at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. John J. Wilson, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. William E. Rollow, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before LEVENTHAL, ROBINSON and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges.


LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court granting Texaco's petition for a mandamus-type order to require the Secretary of the Interior to issue a permit to drill an offshore well, off the Louisiana coast. The basis of the action was that the proposed well site was within an area covered by a lease from the State of Louisiana, a lease that was maintained by a 1958 decision of the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Section...

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