UNITED STATES v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY

No. 71-1572.

465 F.2d 58 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 12, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Donald McSweeney, William A. Montgomery, Robert T. Berendt, David W. Schoenberg, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant; Schiff, Hardin, Waite, Dorschel & Britton, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Kent Frizzell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund B. Clark, Carl Strass, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., James R. Thompson, U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before PELL and STEVENS, Circuit Judges, and LARAMORE, Senior Judge.


LARAMORE, Senior Judge.

This is a criminal appeal which involves purely questions of law. The facts are quite simple and are wholly uncontested. The case comes to this court from the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois where defendant-appellant, Atlantic Richfield Company, was found guilty of violating sections 407 and 411 of Title 33, United States Code, 1964. (Act of March 3, 1899, chapter 425, section 13; 30 Stat. 1152).

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