F. T. C. v. EXXON CORP.

No. 80-2043.

636 F.2d 1336 (1980)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. EXXON CORPORATION et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Allen, Washington, D. C., with whom Edwin M. Zimmerman and Catherine W. Brown, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellant.

Michael A. Schlanger, Atty., F. T. C., Washington, D. C., with whom James H. Sneed, Acting Gen. Counsel, Ernest A. Nagata, David W. Long, Daniel S. Koch, Richard L. Sippel and John R. Metz, Karen L. Chapman, Attys., F. T. C., Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before EDWARDS and GINSBURG, Circuit Judges, and JOYCE HENS GREEN, United States District Judge for the District of Columbia.


Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge EDWARDS.

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge:

Exxon Corporation here appeals from an Order entered by District Court Judge John Pratt on June 25, 1980. In that Order, Judge Pratt prohibited both in-house and retained counsel for Exxon from having an attorney-client relationship with a segment of a wholly-owned Exxon subsidiary, known as the Drives Group, during the course of an administrative proceeding that may result in the...

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