PEOPLE OF STATE OF CAL. EX REL. YOUNGER v. MORTON

No. CV 74-2374-DWW.

404 F.Supp. 26 (1975)

PEOPLE OF the STATE OF CALIFORNIA ex rel. Evelle J. YOUNGER, Attorney General, and California Coastal Zone Conservation Commission, Plaintiffs, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Department of the Interior, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

November 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen., Robert H. O'Brien, Carl Boronkay, Asst. Attys. Gen., Nicholas C. Yost, Norman N. Flette, John P. Meck, Deputy Attys. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

William D. Keller, U. S. Atty., Frederick M. Brosio, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Chief, Civ. Div., Donald J. Merriman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., William M. Cohen, Atty., Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D. C., for defendants; Gary Bohlke, Jack Hughes, Attys., Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D. C., of counsel.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

DAVID W. WILLIAMS, District Judge.

The energy crunch in the United States which resulted from the slackening of Mid-East oil sources in 1973 caused a revival of attention to undersea petroleum deposits which had long been assumed to exist in respectable quantities. The Department of the Interior (DOI) recommended to the President of the United States that consideration be given to the stepping-up of plans to lease acreage in the Outer...

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