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HUNT v. MOBIL OIL CORP.

No. 75 Civil 1160.

444 F.Supp. 68 (1977)

Nelson Bunker HUNT, W. Herbert Hunt and Lamar Hunt, Plaintiffs, v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Texaco, Inc., Standard Oil Company of California, the British Petroleum Company Ltd., Shell Petroleum Company Ltd., Exxon Corporation, Gulf Oil Corporation, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Grace Petroleum Corporation, and Gelsenberg AG, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

December 5, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nickerson, Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen, Kamin & Soll, New York City, for plaintiffs; Daniel P. Levitt, Scarsdale, Ellen R. Nadler, Kenneth Berlin, Jeffrey T. Golenbock, New York City, of counsel.

Charles F. Kazlauskas, Jr., White Plains, N.Y., Lawrence R. Jerz, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, for defendant Texaco Inc.; Milton J. Schubin, Randolph S. Sherman, New York City, of counsel.

Howrey & Simon, Washington, D. C., Richard H. Zahm, Jr., Juliet Shepard, Mobil Oil Corp., New York City, for defendant Mobil Oil Corp.; Edward F. Howrey, A. Duncan Whitaker, Mark D. Wegener, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Frank W. Morgan, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Gulf Oil Corp.; John E. Bailey, Charles O. Murray, III, A. Randall Friday, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for defendant The Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd.

Shea, Gould, Climenko & Casey, New York City, for defendant The British Petroleum Co. Ltd.

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Defendants Texaco, Mobil, Gulf, Shell and British Petroleum move to vacate a stay of arbitration entered by this Court over two years ago and to stay trial of the antitrust claims pending arbitration of the contractual issues between the parties. They assert that the intervening pretrial discovery and case law now require that the plaintiffs' contract claims be submitted to arbitrators prior to the trial of the plaintiffs...

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