Nelson Bunker HUNT, W. Herbert Hunt and Lamar Hunt, Plaintiffs,
v.
MOBIL OIL CORPORATION; Texaco Inc.; Standard Oil Company of California; The British Petroleum Company, Ltd.; Shell Petroleum Company, Ltd.; Exxon Corporation; Gulf Oil Corporation; Occidental Petroleum Corporation; Grace Petroleum Corporation and Gelsenberg A.G., Defendants.
United States District Court, S.D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 15, 1983.
February 15, 1983.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Philip J. Hirschkop, Lewis H. Goldfarb, Hirschkop & Grad, P.C., Alexandria, Va., Robert Weiner, Theodore Steingut, Berger, Steingut, Weiner, Fox & Stern, New York City, for plaintiffs.
Robert M. Osgood, William H. Knull, III, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for defendant Exxon Corp.
Bruce A. Hecker, Joseph Ferraro, Shea & Gould, New York City, for defendant The British Petroleum Co., Ltd.
A. Randall Friday, Mark A. Brand, Gulf Oil Corporation, Houston, Tex., for defendant Gulf Oil Corp.
Edward F. Howrey, P.C., A. Duncan Whitaker, P.C., Mark D. Wegener, David C. Eddy, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C., N.E. Maryan, Jr., Mobil Oil Corporation, New York City, for defendant Mobil Oil Corp.
John R. Hupper, Douglas D. Broadwater, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Thomas J. Sweeney, III, Davis, Markel, Dwyer & Edwards, New York City, for defendant The Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd.
Gordon B. Spivack, David H. Marks, Carolyn T. Ellis, James R. Eiszner, Jr., Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, Thomas E. Haven, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Standard Oil Co. of California.
Charles F. Kazlauskas, Jr., Lawrence R. Jerz, Elizabeth P. Smith, Texaco Inc., White Plains, N.Y., Milton J. Schubin, Randolph S. Sherman, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City, for defendant Texaco Inc.
Louis Nizer, Robert R. Salman, Janet P. Kane, Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, New York City, for defendant Occidental Petroleum Corp.
United States District Court, S.D. New York.
OPINION
EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.
The parties to this action have been engaged in litigation for eight years, and although a final judgment after a trial was entered as to some claims in November 1978, the end of the controversy is nowhere in sight. The action was commenced in 1975 by plaintiffs, Nelson Bunker Hunt, W. Herbert Hunt and Lamar Hunt ("the Hunts"), against the world's seven largest oil producing companies ("the majors"), Occidental Petroleum...
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