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SANTA FE INTERN. CORP. v. WATT

Civ. A. No. 83-347 MMS.

580 F.Supp. 27 (1984)

SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. James G. WATT, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

February 1, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, Jr., and Martin P. Tully, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiffs; William T. Coleman, Jr., Washington, D.C., Richard C. Warmer, Carl R. Schenker, Jr., Christopher W. Savage and Susan S. Richardson, Los Angeles, Cal., Donald L. Morgan, J. Eugene Marans, and Jonathan J. Rusch, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Joseph J. Farnan, Jr., U.S. Atty., and Richard J. McMahon, Asst. U.S. Atty., Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, Del., F. Henry Habicht, II, Roger J. Marzulla, Special Litigation Counsel, and Lawrence W. Puckett, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.

The opening round of this case continues the developing saga of the lower federal courts' efforts to delineate appropriate venue under 28 U.S.C. § 1391(e) in cases relating to continental oil and gas leases and lease applications. See Mountain States Legal Foundation v. Watt, No. 81-C-899 (D.Colo. July 14, 1983); Ferguson v. Lieurance,

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