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EXXON CORP. v. F. T. C.

No. 77-2473.

588 F.2d 895 (1978)

EXXON CORPORATION, Gulf Oil Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation, Standard Oil Company of California, Standard Oil Company (Indiana), and Atlantic Richfield Company v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Calfin J. Collier, Chairman, Paul Rand Dixon, Member, David A. Clanton, Member, and M. Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Member, Exxon Corporation and Gulf Oil Corporation, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Simon, John S. Kingdon, Robert G. Abrams, Stuart H. Harris, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C., for appellant, Exxon Corp.

Jesse P. Luton, Jr., John E. Bailey, Houston, Tex., for appellant, Gulf Oil Corp.; John H. Chiles, Richard P. Ryan, Walter B. Morgan, Houston, Tex., Benjamin T. Richards, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

Michael N. Sohn, Gen. Counsel, Gerald P. Norton, Deputy Gen. Counsel, W. Dennis Cross, Asst. Gen. Counsel, William A. Horne, Atty., Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., Kent Walker, Asst. U.S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., for appellees.

Before ALDISERT and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges, and MEANOR, District Judge.

OPINION

A. LEON HIGGINBOTHAM, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Exxon Corporation and Gulf Oil Corporation, in response to a subpoena duces tecum, have turned over to the Federal Trade Commission a substantial volume of documents many of which are confidential. They then joined with other plaintiffs in the filing of a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware seeking a declaratory judgment to the effect that the FTC was not providing...

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