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CHEVRON OIL CO. v. ANDRUS

No. 77-2186.

588 F.2d 1383 (1979)

CHEVRON OIL COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary, Department of the Interior et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 8, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald J. Gallinghouse, U. S. Atty., Ford J. Dieth, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., Andrew F. Walch, Dept. of Justice, James W. Moorman, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund B. Clark, Charles E. Biblowit, Raymond N. Zagone, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Land & Natural Resources Div., Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellants.

Wilson S. Shirley, Jr., John C. Christian, M. Hampton Carver, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, GEWIN and TJOFLAT, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 8, 1979.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This case requires us to construe the Department of Interior's regulations for the leasing of oil and gas development rights on the nation's outer continental shelf. The question presented is whether the Department has bound itself by regulation to abide by the unreviewed action of a regional manager in the evaluation of bids for leases. The district court held in the affirmative...

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