CONOCO, INC. v. SKINNER

Nos. 91-3589, 91-3920.

970 F.2d 1206 (1992)

CONOCO, INC.; E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Co., Petitioners in No. 91-3589, v. Samuel K. SKINNER, Secretary of Transportation; Warren G. Leback, Maritime Administrator; and the United States of America. CONOCO, INC.; E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Co., Appellants in No. 91-3920, v. Samuel K. SKINNER, Secretary of Transportation; Nicholas F. Brady; William A. Kime, Commandant of the Coast Guard; Warren G. Leback, Administrator, U.S. Department of Transportation; Carol B. Hallett, Commissioner of Customs, U.S. Customs Service.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided July 16, 1992.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 18, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark P. Schlefer (argued), T.S.L. Perlman, Leonard Egan, William C. Buckhold, Fort & Schlefer, Washington, D.C., for petitioners-appellants.

Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., William C. Carpenter, Jr., U.S. Atty., Robert V. Zener, Jeffrey Clair (argued), Appellate Staff, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for respondents-appellees.

Before: HUTCHINSON, COWEN and GARTH, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied August 18, 1992.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERT E. COWEN, Circuit Judge.

This consolidated case involves the complex statutory scheme regulating the ownership, operation, and chartering of vessels in the coastwise trade. Petitioners-appellants Conoco and Du Pont challenged regulations of the Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration which required that parent corporations of subsidiaries operating vessels in...

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