IN RE DEPT. OF ENERGY STRIPPER WELL EXEMPTION LIT.

MDL No. 378.

578 F.Supp. 586 (1983)

In re The DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY STRIPPER WELL EXEMPTION LITIGATION.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

On Motion to Certify Constitutional Issues January 25, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Kennedy, Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Chartered, Wichita, Kan., for plaintiff.

Larry P. Ellsworth, Marcia K. Sowles, Samuel Soopper, Dept. of Energy, Office of Gen. Counsel, Washington, D.C., for Dept. of Energy.

Brian G. Grace, Curfman, Harris, Stallings, Grace & Snow, Wichita, Kan., for Tenneco Oil, Pennzoil, Tosco, Ashland Oil, Texas City Refining.

Alexander B. Mitchell, Wichita, Kan., Harold E. Kohn, Michael D. Hausfeld, Joseph C. Kohn, Kohn, Savett, Marion & Graf, Philadelphia, Pa., for Nat. Freight, Inc. and Philadelphia Elec. Co.

George G. Olsen, Williams & Jensen, Washington, D.C., for IU Intern. Oil & Gas Inc.

John F. Hayes, Hutchinson, Kan., William G. Riddoch, Houston, Tex., for Shell Oil Co.

James F. Flug, Washington, D.C., for State of Ala., Michigan, California.

Wayne Hundley, Deputy Atty. Gen., Topeka, Kan., Arthur J. Galligan, Washington, D.C., E. Dwight Taylor, Wichita, Kan., for States of Kan., Del., R.I., N.D., Ia., La. and Ala., Mich and Cal., W.Va.

Alexander B. Mitchell, Wichita, Kan., Jerry S. Cohen, Michael D. Hausfeld, Patricia F. Bak, Washington, D.C., for Independent Motor Gasoline Retailers, see dkt 279 for names of intervenors.

John A. Gibney, Jr., Richmond, Va., for intervenor Commonwealth of Va.

John R. Tarpley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for State of Tenn.

Richard P. Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., for Georgia and South Carolina.

J. Wallace Malley, Jr., Jane Hart Marter, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montpelier, Vt., for State of Vt.

Claude E. Salomon, Deputy Atty. Gen., Div. of Law, Newark, N.J., for State of N.J.

Bernard Nash, Edward G. Modell, Blum & Nash, Washington, D.C., for States of Pa., Nev., Hawaii and Guam.

Jo Anne Sanford, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Steven Bryant, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C., for North Carolina.

Brad P. Engdahl, St. Paul, Minn., for Minnesota.

Frank J. Huftless, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln, Neb., for Nebraska.

Frank W. Ostrander, Asst. Atty. Gen., Portland, Or., for Oregon.

Eduardo L. Buso, Asst. Atty. Gen., San Juan, P.R., for Puerto Rico.

Richard R. Knoepfel, Chief, Law Div., St. Thomas, U.S. V.I., for Virgin Islands.

William C. Primm, Paul Bardacke, Sante Fe, N.M., for New Mexico.

Inez Smith Reid, Corp. Counsel, Doreen E. Thompson, Stuart Cameron, Washington, D.C., for District of Columbia.

Richard L. Griffith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, Colo., for Colorado.

Dennis M. Ryan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., for Massachusetts.

Richard F. Webb, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn., for Connecticut.

Bruce E. Mohl, Asst. Atty. Gen., Concord, N.H., for New Hampshire.

Robert Frank, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, Maine, for Maine.

Stanley B. Klimberg, Gen. Counsel, N.Y. State Energy Office, Albany, N.Y., Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the St. of N.Y., New York City, for New York.

L.C. Ross, Denver, Colo., James W. Collier, Detroit, Mich., Robert Martin, Paul Swartz, Martin Bauer, Wichita, Kan., for Total Petroleum Inc.

Brian Grace, Wichita, Kan., Ralph J. Maynard, Houston, Tex., for Tenneco Oil Co.

John P. Mathis, Catherine C. Wakelyn, Washington, D.C., for Tenneco Oil Co. and Pennzoil Co.

Perry O. Barber, Houston, Tex., for Pennzoil Co.

Kenneth L. Bachman, Jr., Eugene M. Goott, Washington, D.C., Jeanette M. Thomas, Los Angeles, Cal., for Tosco Corp.

Thomas A. Donovan, Pittsburgh, Pa., Robert H. Compton, Kathleen C. Gillmore, Ashland, Ky., for Ashland Oil Inc.

Richard P. Noland, Robert R. Morrow, Monica A. Otte, Washington, D.C., for Texas City Refining Inc.

Brian Grace, Wichita, Kan., Van R. Boyette and Joseph C. Bell, Washington, D.C., for American Petroleum Refiners Ass'n.

Thomas D. Kitch, Wichita, Kan., Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for Chevron U.S.A. Inc.

James P. Zakoura, Kansas City, Kan., Robert L. Gowdy, Kansas City, Mo., for Farmland Industries, Inc.

Alphonse M. Alfano, Robert S. Bassman, Douglas B. Mitchell, Washington, D.C., Will Marson, Topeka, Kan., for Nat. Oil Jobbers Council.

Walter Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Energy Div., Austin, Tex., for Texas.

Marian Yoder, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, Wyo., for State of Wyo.

David G. High, Deputy Atty. Gen., Boise, Idaho, for State of Idaho.

James F. Flug, Lee Ellen Helfrich, Lobel, Novins & Lamont, Washington, D.C., for State of Wyo., Idaho and Ind.

Frank Baldwin, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for State of Ind.

E. Dwight Taylor, Hulnick & Taylor, Wichita, Kan., Andrew P. Miller, Arthur J. Galligan, Peter J. Kadzik, Washington, D.C., for State of Utah.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER OF REFERRAL FOR FACT FINDING TO ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY

THEIS, District Judge.

Like flies to honey, claimants are quickly drawn by a fund containing over one billion dollars. These claimants have radically differing notions as to how the fund should be distributed, with one factor common to all suggested approaches: each claimant, unsurprisingly, desires a methodology of distribution likely to result in a large percentage of the fund being...

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