MOBIL OIL CORP. v. TULLY

Nos. 80-CV-543, 80-CV-544, 80-CV-570.

499 F.Supp. 888 (1980)

MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Atlantic Richfield Company, United Refining Company, Inc. and Gulf Oil Company, Plaintiffs, v. James H. TULLY, Jr., Thomas H. Lynch, and Francis Koenig, Constituting the New York State Tax Commission; Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York; and James L. LaRocca, Commissioner of the New York State Energy Office, Defendants. NEW ENGLAND PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. James H. TULLY, Jr., Commissioner of Taxation and Finance of the State of New York, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General, State of New York, Defendants. AMERADA HESS CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. James H. TULLY, Jr., Thomas H. Lynch, and Francis Koenig, Constituting the New York State Tax Commission; Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York; and James L. LaRocca, Commissioner of the New York State Energy Office, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. New York.

September 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, Bond, Schoeneck & King, Syracuse, N. Y., for plaintiffs Mobil Oil Corp., Atlantic Richfield and United Refining Co.; Thomas R. Trowbridge, III, New York City, John M. Freyer, Syracuse, N. Y., of counsel.

Edward F. Gerber, Syracuse, N. Y., Arthur L. Vangeli and Sydney M. Avent, Philadelphia, Pa., for Gulf Oil Corp.

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, Bouck, Holloway & Kiernan, Albany, N. Y., for plaintiff New England Petroleum; James C. Blair, New York City, Warner Bouck, Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, Hancock, Estabrook, Ryan, Shove & Hust, Syracuse, N. Y., for plaintiff Amerada Hess Corp.; Stanley D. Robinson, New York City, William L. Allen, Jr., Syracuse, N. Y., of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of New York, Albany, N. Y., pro se and for defendant LaRocca; Shirley Siegel, Sol. Gen., Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for defendants Tully, Lynch and Koenig, constituting the New York State Tax Commission; Edward Costikyan, Simon H. Rifkind, New York City, of counsel.


ORDER

McCURN, District Judge.

Defendants have moved for an order dismissing these three actions for lack of subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1341. Plaintiffs in each action have moved for an order granting summary judgment in their favor. The Court has concluded after full hearing and after consideration of the arguments of counsel on both motions, the memoranda submitted therewith, both in support and opposition, and the exhibits...

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