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U.S. v. APEX OIL CO., INC.

No. 96-30342.

132 F.3d 1287 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. APEX OIL COMPANY, INC.; Trinidad Corporation; Anthony Schaeffer; Laurence V. Wade; John Sheppard; Kouichi Matsumoto; Donald K. Robertson, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 29, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Ross, Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, Oregon, John T. Stahr, Noreen McCarthy, Ellen J. Durkee, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for plaintiff-appellant.

Marcus S. Topel, Gary K. Dubcoff, Topel & Goodman, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee Apex Oil Company, Inc.; Norman Sepenuk, Portland, Oregon, for defendant-appellee Trinidad Corporation; Douglas A. Stringer, Portland, Oregon, George D. Niespolo, Sideman and Bancroft, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee Anthony Schaeffer; E. Michael Murphy, Stolar Partnership, St. Louis, Missouri, for defendant-appellee Laurence V. Wade; Robert J. Breakstone, Landels Ripley & Diamond, San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee John Sheppard; Michele B. Corash, Sean Mahoney, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, California, Marc D. Blackman, Portland, Oregon, for defendant-appellee Kouichi Matsumoto; Terry Burnet, Menees, Whitney and Burnet, Clayton, Missouri, for defendant-appellee Donald K. Robertson.

Before: JOHN T. NOONAN, Jr. and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, Jr., District Judge.

NOONAN, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals the dismissal by the district court of the first count of a five count indictment of the named defendants. The case turns on the meaning of the regulations governing the discharge of oil by ships subject to the 1980 Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, 33 U.S.C. § 1901-1915 and Annexes I, II and V of the 1973 International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), as modified by the 1978 International...

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