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INTERN. ASS'N OF MACHINISTS v. ORG'N OF PETROLEUM

No. 78-5012-AAH (SX).

477 F.Supp. 553 (1979)

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS, ("IAM"), an association, Plaintiff, v. The ORGANIZATION OF the PETROLEUM EXPORTING COUNTRIES ("OPEC"), the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, ("Algeria"), the Republic of Ecuador, ("Ecuador"), the Gabonese Republic, ("Gabon"), Republic of Indonesia, ("Indonesia"), Imperial Government of Iran, ("Iran"), Republic of Iraq, ("Iraq"), State of Kuwait, ("Kuwait"), Libyan Arab Republic, ("Libya"), Federal Republic of Nigeria, ("Nigeria"), State of Qatar, ("Qatar"), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ("Saudi Arabia"), State of United Arab Emirates, ("United Arab Emirates"), and the Republic of Venezuela, ("Venezuela"), Defendants.

United States District Court, C. D. California.

September 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Davis, Los Angeles, Cal., Albert E. Levy, San Francisco, Cal., Ackerman, Ling & Russell by James H. Ackerman, Long Beach, Cal., Plato E. Papps, Washington, D.C., Schwartz, Alschuler & Grossman by Benjamin F. Schwartz, Los Angeles, Cal., and Klinger & Leevan by Tobias G. Klinger, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

Richard I. Fine, Arthur Soll, and Barry Cohen, Los Angeles, Cal., as amicus curiae, in pro. per., urging the granting of the injunction.

S. C. Yuter, New York City, as amicus curiae, in pro. per., urging the granting of the injunction.

Latham & Watkins by Philip F. Belleville, Los Angeles, Cal., and Antonin Scalia, Chicago, Ill., for Indonesia-U.S. Business Committee of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as amicus curiae urging dismissal.

Holmes & Warden by Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al Mansour, San Francisco, Cal., and Faisal Bin Fahad Al Talal, San Francisco, Cal., for Concerned Black Americans in Support of Africa and the Middle East as amicus curiae urging dismissal.*

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER OF JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANTS

HAUK, District Judge.

INTRODUCTORY

In September, 1960, defendants Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela met in Baghdad, Iraq. The result of this meeting and subsequent meetings was the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (hereinafter "OPEC"). Thereafter, defendants Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar...

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