ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO. v. U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY

Civ. A. Nos. 84-190, 84-735.

618 F.Supp. 1199 (1985)

ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, et al., Defendants. and Farmland Industries, Inc., the States of California, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

September 25, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William O. LaMotte, III, and Richard D. Allen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiffs; David L. Roll, and Richard H. Porter, Steptoe & Johnson, Daniel Joseph, William Streets, and Merrill S. Spiegel, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, D.C., Russell L. Sohn, Kansas City, Mo., of counsel.

Sue L. Robinson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, Del., Dennis G. Linder, and Brian G. Kennedy, Dept. of Justice, Donald W. Crockett, and Charles L. Cope, Dept. of Energy, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Robert K. Payson, and Peter Sieglaff, Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., for intervening defendant Farmland Industries, Inc.; Peggy Grant-Cobb, Weeks, Thomas & Lysaught, Kansas City, Mo., of counsel.

Christopher Curtain, Deputy Atty. Gen., Wilmington, Del., for intervening State defendants; Paula Dinerstein, and James F. Flug, Lobel, Novins & Lamont, Washington, D.C., of counsel.


OPINION

MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

As a byproduct of the mandatory petroleum price controls instituted during the oil crisis of the early 1970s, the United States Department of Energy ("DOE") has recovered over one billion dollars from various petroleum companies in settlement of claims of alleged violations of the federal price regulations. The task of disbursing those funds to the victims of the violations...

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