COASTAL CORP. v. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Civ. A. No. 80-8.

496 F.Supp. 57 (1980)

The COASTAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

June 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William O. LaMotte, III, and William T. Allen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff; J. Todd Shields, Jay Allen Chaffee and Charles S. Patterson, Jr., Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

James W. Garvin, Jr., U.S. Atty. and John X. Denney, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, Del., Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Vincent M. Garvey and Stephen E. Hart, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant.


OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

In this action based upon the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552, plaintiff The Coastal Corporation ("Coastal" or "plaintiff") has presented a motion to compel preparation of a Vaughn index.1 The defendant in this action, the Department of Energy ("DOE"), has agreed to prepare a Vaughn index of all documents responsive to Coastal's FOIA request asserted...

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