NATIONAL HELIUM CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, and
Phillips Petroleum Company and
Cities Service Helex, Inc., Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellees,
v.
Rogers C. B. MORTON, Secretary of the Interior, and Elburt F. Osborn, Director, Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 19, 1973.
October 19, 1973.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Raymond D. Battocchi, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Harlington Wood, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Irving Jaffe, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert J. Roth, U. S. Atty., D. Kan., Morton Hollander and Irwin Goldbloom, Attys., Dept. of Justice, on the brief), for defendants-appellants.
Robert L. Ackerly, of Sellers, Conner & Cuneo, Washington, D. C. (Emmet A. Blaes of Jochems, Sargent & Blaes, Wichita, Kan., Raymond S. E. Pushkar, of Sellers, Conner & Cuneo, Washington, D. C., Wendell J. Doggett, Gen. Counsel & Secretary, National Helium Corp., Houston, Tex., of counsel, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee, National Helium Corp.
William H. Allen, of Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C. (Joseph W. Kennedy, of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Wichita, Kan., Eugene D. Gulland, of Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C.; R. Price Howard, Senior Counsel, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okl., of counsel, on the brief), for intervenor-plaintiff-appellee, Phillips Petroleum Co.
Daniel R. Hopkins, Oklahoma City, Okl. (William J. Sears, Oklahoma City, Okl., Mark H. Adams, Mark H. Adams, II, and William S. Richardson, of Adams, Jones, Robinson & Malone, Wichita, Kan., on the brief), for intervenor-plaintiff-appellee, Cities Service Helex, Inc.
Before BREITENSTEIN, HILL and DOYLE, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
WILLIAM E. DOYLE, Circuit Judge.
This cause has been appealed on prior occasions. In National Helium Corporation v. Morton, 455 F.2d 650 (10th Cir. 1971), the district court, 326 F.Supp. 151, had ruled that helium purchase contracts entered into pursuant to the Helium Act, 50 U.S.C. § 167 et seq. could not be terminated by the Secretary of the Interior without the filing by the Interior Department...
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