BECHTEL PETROLEUM, INC. v. WEBSTER

No. C-82-6664 WHO.

636 F.Supp. 486 (1985)

BECHTEL PETROLEUM, INC., formerly Bechtel Incorporated, Plaintiff, v. Thomas B. WEBSTER; Eric S. Schrank; Van A. Bulf; Peter S. Churgel; Delbert D. Hoke; Sam C. Bitetti; Phillip C. Aikele; Gary M. Braza; Ava K. Melkonian; Donald L. Earnhart; George C. McIntosh; Walter Voight; Arvid B. Rasmusson; Allan R. Kemp; Eugene E. Work; Peter E. House; Albert J. Cooper; George G. Pearce; Claude E. Carroll; Gary B. Deeter; Jack G. Brockman; Harell L. Broome; Robert A. Brokaw; Eric A. Mefley; Earl J. Bitzenburg; Earl M. Cox, Jr.; Robert Weaver; Samuel D. Jennings; Charles A. Yokiel; Edward Aigeltinger; Emory W. Carter; Stephen C. Garey; Richard D. Libkuman; Estate of Frank Butler; Edward G. Anderson; Allen B. Snyder; Robert Prevedello; George S. Allen, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

On Motion for Summary Judgment July 18, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse B. Grove, Thomas R. Goin, John R. Foote, Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Edgar Paul Boyko, Fletcher W. Paddison, Miller, Boyko & Bell, San Diego, Cal., Charles E. Cole, Edward T. Noonan, Law Offices of Charles Cole, Fairbanks, Alaska, for defendants except Estate of Butler, Snyder, Prevedello and Allen.

Ronald W. Lorensen, Acting Atty. Gen., Thomas H. Robertson, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alaska, Dept. of Law, Juneau, Alaska, for intervenors.


OPINION AND ORDER

ORRICK, District Judge.

This decision holding that this Court will not abstain from considering vel non to exercise its jurisdiction to protect the decree entered in a companion case involving the same parties and the same issues merely adds more strands to the arcane web of federal and state litigation involving charges by governmental agencies and one thousand former employees of Bechtel Petroleum Co. ("Bechtel") that Bechtel,...

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