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STATE OF LA. v. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Civ. A. No. 800812.

519 F.Supp. 351 (1981)

STATE OF LOUISIANA, Plaintiff, Texaco, Inc., The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company, Intervening Plaintiffs, v. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY and Charles W. Duncan, Jr., Secretary of Energy, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Lafayette-Opelousas Division.

July 7, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Camp, Carmouche, Palmer, Barsh & Hunter, Harry E. Barsh and David R. Frohn, Lake Charles, La., for plaintiff.

Morris, Nichols, Arsht, & Tunnell, Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, Jr. and Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Wm. O. LaMotte, Wilmington, Del., for intervenor — Texaco.

Bracewell & Patterson, Roger L. Reynolds, and Darci L. Rock, Washington, D. C., Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, J. Henry Phillips, III, New Orleans, La., for LA Land & Exploration Co.

Allan Abbott Tuttle, Patton, Boggs & Blow, Washington, D. C., for State of La.

Caffery, Oubre & Dugas, Patrick T. Caffery, New Iberia, La., for defendants.

J. Ransdell Keene, Frances O. Allen, Shreveport, La. and Dennis G. Linder, Branch Director, Michael T. Scott, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Nancy Crisman and Judith Mather, Regulatory Litigation Division, Washington, D. C., David R. Hughes, Dept. of Spec. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for Dept. of Energy.

Frederick W. Veters, New Orleans, La., Stephen H. Bard, Texaco, Inc., White Plains, N. Y., for Texaco.

RULING ON MOTION

SHAW, District Judge.

This matter involves a Motion for Summary Judgment by plaintiffs, State of Louisiana ("Louisiana"), Texaco, Inc. ("Texaco"), and the Louisiana Land and Exploration Company ("LL&E"), in accordance with Rule 56(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The plaintiffs in this case respectfully ask this Court to declare:

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