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GET OIL OUT! INC. v. EXXON CORP.

No. 75-3635.

586 F.2d 726 (1978)

GET OIL OUT! INC. et al., Appellants, v. EXXON CORPORATION et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

November 22, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Sink, Santa Barbara, Cal., for appellants.

Edward J. Shawaker, Atty., Washington, D. C., Philip K. Verleger, Los Angeles, Cal., Denatus Januta, Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued), San Francisco, Cal., for appellees.

Before KENNEDY and HUG, Circuit Judges, and JAMESON, District Judge.

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires a determination of whether certain off-shore facilities used to develop oil reserves lying beneath the ocean floor are "deepwater ports" as defined by the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, 33 U.S.C. § 1501 et seq. (1976). Get Oil Out! Inc. (GOO), a nonprofit California corporation, brought this action against the defendant oil companies to enjoin construction of the facilities in question until the defendants secured...

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