UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA v. MINIER

Nos. 25045-25048.

437 F.2d 408 (1970)

UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, a corporation, and Fred L. Hartley, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. David D. MINIER, Defendant-Appellant. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY, a corporation, and Frank Davis, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. David D. MINIER, Defendant-Appellant. TEXACO, INC., a corporation, and Wallace A. Avery, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. David D. MINIER, Defendant-Appellant. Crandall D. JONES and Humble Oil Refining Company, a corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. David D. MINIER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

December 3, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Stanton (argued), Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas C. Lynch, Atty. Gen., Paul J. Richmond, Deputy Atty. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

Allyn O. Kreps (argued), of O'Melveny & Myers, Warren Christopher, Girard E. Boudreau, Jr., Edward J. Costello, Jr., Douglas C. Gregg, George C. Bond, Sam A. Snyder, Los Angeles, Cal., for Union Oil Co. of Cal., and Fred L. Hartley.

John P. Pollock (argued), of Pollock, Tappaan, Palmer & Metzler, Los Angeles, Cal., for Phillips Petroleum Co. and Frank Davis.

Richard Goethals (argued), of Schell & Delamer, Walter O. Schell, Thomas J. Kelley, Jr., Miles W. Newby, Jr., B. J. Rosse, Los Angeles, Cal., for Texaco, Inc. and Wallace A. Avery.

Philip K. Verleger (argued), of McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Los Angeles, Cal., for Crandall D. Jones and Humble Oil Refining Co.

Edmund B. Clark, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (argued), Atty., Shiro Kashiwa, Asst. Atty. Gen., Walter Kiechel, Jr., Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., George S. Swarth and Jonathan I. Charney, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae.

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


RUSSELL E. SMITH, District Judge:

The efforts of David T. Minier, District Attorney of Santa Barbara County (appellant here) to stop the development of the outer Continental Shelf in the Santa Barbara channel and the production of oil by threatened use of the California criminal process, were enjoined by the District Court. This appeal is taken from orders refusing to vacate preliminary injunctions. We affirm.

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