TEXACO, INC. v. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Civ. A. No. 79-323.

490 F.Supp. 874 (1980)

TEXACO, INC., Plaintiff, and State of Louisiana and Louisiana Land & Exploration Company, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY and Charles W. Duncan, Jr., Secretary of Energy, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

May 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Tunnell, Jr., Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, Jr., William O. LaMotte, III, and Richard D. Allen of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., Stephen H. Bard, White Plains, N. Y., for plaintiff.

David A. Anderson, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., James R. Patton, Jr., Allan A. Tuttle and George M. Borababy of Patton, Boggs & Blow, Washington, D. C., for intervening plaintiff State of Louisiana.

Charles F. Richards, Jr., and Stephen E. Herrmann of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., John R. Cope, Thomas D. Manford, III, Roger L. Reynolds, and Daryl J. Hudson, III of Bracewell & Patterson, Washington, D. C., J. Henry Phillips, III of Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, New Orleans, La., for intervening plaintiff Louisiana Land & Exploration Co.

James W. Garvin, Jr., U. S. Atty., John X. Denney, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., John P. McKenna, Nancy C. Crisman and Christopher M. Was, Dept. of Energy, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


OPINION

STAPLETON, District Judge:

In this action initiated by Texaco, Inc. ("Texaco") and in which the State of Louisiana ("Louisiana") and the Louisiana Land and Exploration Company ("LL&E") have intervened, plaintiff and plaintiff-intervenors ("plaintiffs") seek declaratory relief as to the meaning and validity of certain regulations and rulings of the Department of Energy ("DOE")1 and injunctive relief as to a currently...

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