EXXON CORP. v. HUNT

No. 81-2514.

683 F.2d 69 (1982)

EXXON CORPORATION, The BF Goodrich Company, and Union Carbide Corporation, Monsanto Company and Tenneco Chemicals, Inc., Appellants v. Robert HUNT, Administrator of New Jersey Spill Compensation Fund, Clifford A. Goldman, Treasurer of the State of New Jersey, Sidney Glaser, Director of the Division of Taxation, Jerry F. English, Commissioner of Environmental Protection, and the State of New Jersey, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Reargued June 7, 1982.

Decided June 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Carlin, Jr. (argued), Farrell, Curtis, Carlin & Davidson, Morristown, N. J., for appellants.

Mary C. Jacobson, Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued), Erminie L. Conley, Asst. Atty. Gen., James R. Zazzali, Atty. Gen. of N. J., Richard J. Hughes, Trenton, N. J., for appellees.

Before HUNTER, WEIS and BECKER, Circuit Judges.


Argued March 2, 1982.

Before HUNTER, WEIS and HIGGINBOTHAM*, Circuit Judges.

Reargued June 7, 1982.

Before HUNTER, WEIS and BECKER, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

WEIS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment that a federal statute exempted them from a state tax. Invoking the Tax Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1341 (1976), the district court dismissed the case. We find that...

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