AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE v. KNECHT

No. CV 77-3375-RJK.

456 F.Supp. 889 (1978)

AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert W. KNECHT et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

August 31, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Philip K. Verleger, Howard J. Privett, Ward L. Benshoof, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Sanford Sagalkin, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Bruce A. Rashkow, William Brian Morrison, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for federal defendants.

John Roger Beers, James B. Frankel, Palo Alto, Cal., for Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., and Sierra Club, moving for intervention.

Evelle J. Younger, Atty. Gen. of Cal., R. H. Connett, Asst. Atty. Gen., Roderick E. Walston, Donatas Januta, Deputy Attys. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for California Coastal Commission, moving for intervention.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

KELLEHER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs American Petroleum Institute, Western Oil and Gas Association, and certain oil company members of the aforesaid Institute and Association brought this action against three federal officials ("the federal defendants") in their official capacities as Secretary of Commerce, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ("NOAA"), and Acting Associate Administrator of...

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