BELLE FOURCHE PIPELINE CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. C82-0145-B.

554 F.Supp. 1350 (1983)

BELLE FOURCHE PIPELINE COMPANY, Black Hills Trucking, Inc., Equitable Oil Purchasing Company, Eighty-Eight Oil Company, J. Frank Pottorff, and H.A. True, Jr., Plaintiffs, v. The UNITED STATES of America, and The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Wyoming.

January 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Stanley Lowe and Manuel A. Lojo, Casper, Wyo., and Jack Vickrey, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Charles A. Moore, Gen. Counsel, Nathan P. Fishkin, Deputy Asst. Gen. Counsel, Marilyn Doria, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Gregory F. Linsin and John L. Katz, Trial Attys., F.E. R.C., Washington, D.C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

BRIMMER, District Judge.

This case is an effort by the Plaintiffs to halt an administrative investigation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) of an alleged intrastate business, after several weeks of review of Plaintiffs' files by a team of FERC's lawyers, accountants and clerks who photocopied more than 13,000 documents in the process of which they nearly stopped the Plaintiffs' work. FERC subpoenaed what is asserted to...

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