UTAH INTERN., INC. v. ANDRUS

Civ. A. No. 77-K-595.

488 F.Supp. 976 (1980)

UTAH INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior; Curtis J. Berklund, Director, Bureau of Land Management, United States Department of the Interior; Vincent E. McKelvey, Director of the Geological Survey of the United States; Dale Andrus, State Director for the United States Bureau of Land Management in the State of Colorado; and J. Paul Storrs, Area Mining Supervisor, Conservation Division of the Geological Survey of the United States in the State of Colorado, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

April 18, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miles C. Cortez, Jr., Welborn, Dufford, Cook & Brown, Denver, Colo., for plaintiff.

Jerry B. Tompkins, Asst. U. S. Atty., Denver, Colo., Gerald S. Fish, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KANE, District Judge.

The above-entitled action is another suit involving the federal coal leasing program which has undergone a great deal of change in the past ten years and has prompted a substantial amount of litigation. Plaintiff Utah International, Inc., seeks the issuance of a preference right coal lease for certain federal lands located in the Danforth Hills of northwestern Colorado where it began exploring for coal almost...

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