UNITED STATES v. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY

Civ. No. 66-1154-F.

367 F.Supp. 1226 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY and Tidewater Oil Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

November 13, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin J. Duvall, Jr., William S. Farmer, Jr., David T. Alexander, Shirley Z. Johnson, Antitrust Div., Dept. of Justice, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

O'Melveny & Myers, Everett B. Clary, Los Angeles, Cal., Sullivan & Cromwell, William Piel, Jr., John Dickey, Richard E. Carlton, New York City, Lloyd G. Minter, S. E. Floren, Bartlesville, Okl., for defendant Phillips Petroleum Co.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Moses Laskey, C. B. Cohler, San Francisco, Cal., Hays, Landsman & Head, C. Lansing Hays, Jr., New York City, R. D. Copley, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Tidewater Oil Co.


OPINION

FERGUSON, District Judge.

This civil antitrust action was commenced on July 13, 1966, when the government filed its complaint alleging that the purchase of the Western Manufacturing and Marketing Division of the defendant Tidewater Oil Company by the defendant Phillips Petroleum Company violates § 7 of the Clayton Act as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 18.1

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