DORCHESTER GAS PROD. CO. v. U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY

Civ. A. No. CA-3-75-0836-W.

582 F.Supp. 911 (1983)

DORCHESTER GAS PRODUCING COMPANY, Dorchester Gas Processing Company, Exxon Corporation, Texaco Inc., Mobil Oil Corporation, and Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast Inc., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY and James Edwards, Secretary of Energy, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Texas, Dallas Division.

June 24, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.B. Browder, Jr., Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Midland, Tex., for Dorchester.

M.W. Parse, Jr., Jerry E. Smith, A. Frank Koury, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., M.W. Parse, Jr., Fulbright & Jaworski, Washington, D.C., Louis J. Weber, Jr., Jenkins & Gilchrist, Dallas, Tex., Barbara Finney, Houston, Tex., for Exxon.

Neil J. King, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for Phillips.

David R. Noteware, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, Tex., Michael J. Henke, C. Michael Buxton, Thomas A. Stout, Jr., William D. Holyoak, Vinson & Elkins, Washington, D.C., Stephen H. Bard, Texaco Inc., White Plains, N.Y., for Texaco.

Michael Lowenberg, Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, Tex., Charles S. Lindberg, Donald E. Marquardt, New York City, E.S. McCrum, Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing, New Orleans, La., Michael Lowenberg, R. Bruce McLean, Danield Joseph, Harry R. Silver, Leslie K. Dellon, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, D.C., for Mobil.

Robert F. VanVoorhees, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., Lawrence G. Newman, Newman, Shook & Newman, Dallas, Tex., for Standard Oil.

Barbara A. Babcock, C. Max Vassanelli, Mellie H. Nelson, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Don W. Crockett, Mark Kreitman, Thomas A. Schweitzer, John L. Gurney, Dept. of Energy, R. John Seibert, Federal Programs Branch, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., James A. Rolfe, U.S. Atty., Charles Cabaniss, Asst. U.S. Atty., Dallas, Tex., Clinton E. Averitte, Roger L. McRoberts, Asst. U.S. Attys., Lubbock, Tex., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

WOODWARD, Chief Judge.

Each party to this consolidated action has filed its motion for summary judgment pursuant to Rule 56, F.R.Civ.P., and memorandum in opposition to the motion of the opposing party. Each party contends that the material facts are undisputed to support summary judgment in its favor and that material issues of fact exist which necessarily defeat the opposing motion. The court is of the opinion that the merits of this...

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