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NO OIL, INC. v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. B019246.

196 Cal.App.3d 223 (1987)

242 Cal. Rptr. 37

NO OIL, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Defendant and Appellant; OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, INC., Real Party in Interest and Appellant. RICHARD D. WEISMAN et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Defendant and Appellant; OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, INC., Real Party in Interest and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

November 17, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Burke, Williams & Sorensen, Colin Lennard, John W. Belsher, Carol A. Schwab, Lisa E. Krantz, Steven A. Drown, Kevin S. Mills and John B. Murdock for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Robert M. Myers, City Attorney (Santa Monica), and Joseph Lawrence, Assistant City Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

James K. Hahn, City Attorney, Gary R. Netzer and Edward C. Dygert, Assistant City Attorneys, William L. Waterhouse and William F. Childs, Deputy City Attorneys, for Defendant and Appellant.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, William French Smith, Robert S. Warren, Joel S. Moskowitz, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Arthur Groman, Sanders Barnet, Jacobsen, Goldman & Mosk, Richard M. Mosk, Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg, Tunney & Phillips, Maria Hummer, David Elson and Clare Bronowski for Real Party in Interest and Appellant.

Hecht, Diamond & Greenfield and Roger Jon Diamond for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

OPINION

DEVICH, J.

This appeal presents several questions concerning the validity of three ordinances (sometimes hereafter referred to as drilling ordinances) which permit exploratory oil drilling and, should that prove successful, transportation of the oil by pipeline.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (hereafter Occidental) and City of Los Angeles (hereafter City) appeal from a judgment granting a writ of mandate commanding...

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