COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA v. HICKEL

Nos. 25413, 25414.

426 F.2d 164 (1970)

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, a political subdivision of the State of California, and The City of Santa Barbara, a municipal corporation of the State of California, Appellants, v. Walter J. HICKEL, Secretary of the Interior, United States of America, et al., Appellees. Alvin WEINGAND et al., Appellants, v. Walter J. HICKEL, Secretary of the Interior, William T. Pecora, Director, United States Geological Survey, D. W. Solanas, Regional Supervisor, Oil and Gas Division, United States Geological Survey, Lee A. Dubridge, Science Advisor to the President of the United States, John S. Steinhart, Office of Science and Technology and Executive Secretary to the Special Panel on the Future of the Union Oil Lease, Gulf Oil Company, Mobil Oil Corporation, Texaco, Inc., Union Oil Co., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

April 21, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. L. Wirin (argued), Fred Okrand, Los Angeles, Cal., George P. Kading, Stanley T. Tomlinson, Marvin Levine, Santa Barbara, Cal., Bruce A. Bevan, Jr. (argued), Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants.

Edmund Clark (argued), Washington, D.C., Philip K. Verleger (argued), Allyn Kreps (argued), Los Angeles, Cal., O'Melveny & Myers, Theodore Robinson, Lawler, Felix & Hall, McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Los Angeles, Cal., Ball, Hunt, Hart & Brown, Long Beach, Cal., Musick, Peeler & Garrett, R. W. Curtis, Nossaman, Waters, Scott, Krueger & Riordan; Miles W. Newby, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Reindel & Ohl, New York City, Shiro Kashiwa, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Wallace E. Sedgwick, of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, San Francisco, Cal., Wm. Mathew Byrne, Jr., U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees.

Before HAMLEY and BROWNING, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, District Judge.


HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:

These cases involve oil drilling and production operations in the Santa Barbara Channel. They are before us on appeals taken by the respective plaintiffs from orders, entered in both cases, denying motions for a preliminary injunction.

We consolidated the cases for briefing and argument with County of Santa Barbara, et al. v. Malley, et al., 426 F.2d 171, (9th...

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