DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY v. HUNT

Nos. 5-101, 5-102.

798 F.2d 1421 (1986)

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY and Donald Paul Hodel, Secretary of Energy, Defendants-Appellants, v. Ray L. HUNT, Independent Executor of the Estate of H.L. Hunt, Plaintiff-Appellee, The States of Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, the Territory of Guam and the Virgin Islands, Intervenors-Appellants, Cities Service Company, Intervenor-Appellee.

Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals.

Decided July 16, 1986.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Newkirk, with whom Larry P. Ellsworth, David A. Engels, and Marcia K. Sowles, Dept. of Energy, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for defendants-appellants.

Edward G. Modell, with whom Bernard Nash, Blum, Nash and Railsback, Thomas W. Mack and Andrew P. Miller, Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin, James F. Flug, Lobel, Novins and Lamont, Washington, D.C., Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., Paul Bardacke, Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, N.M., David Frohnmayer, Atty. Gen., Salem, Or., and Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., were on brief for intervenors-appellants States.

Philip P. Kalodner, Attorney for National Freight, Inc., RJG Cab Co., and Geraldine H. Sweeney, Philadelphia, Pa., Harold E. Kohn and Joseph C. Kohn, Kohn, Savett, Marion and Graf, P.C., Attorneys for Philadelphia Elec. Co., were on brief, for amici curiae.

Brett A. Ringle, with whom Karen S. Bedell, Shank, Irwin and Conant, Dallas, Tex., were on brief, for plaintiff-appellee, Ray L. Hunt.

John M. Simpson, with whom Keith A. Jones, James F. Moriarty, Fulbright and Jaworski, Washington, D.C., and Darrel A. Kelsey and Gerald H. Barnes, Cities Service Oil and Gas Corp., Tulsa, Okl., were on brief, for intervenor-appellee, Cities Services Co.

Before BECKER, DAUGHERTY and THORNBERRY, Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 26, 1986.

THORNBERRY, Judge:

This appeal presents a narrow issue: whether the district court abused its discretion in holding that the Department of Energy (DOE) failed to demonstrate a change in core circumstances requiring remand of a lawful remedial order to the agency for reconsideration. We are not asked to determine the district court's power or duty to fashion a restitutionary remedy. Compare United States...

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