MARATHON OIL CO. v. BABBITT

Civil Action No. 97-AP-266.

966 F.Supp. 1024 (1997)

MARATHON OIL COMPANY, an Ohio corporation, Plaintiff, v. Bruce BABBITT, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior; the United States Department of the Interior, and the Bureau of Land Management, Defendants, v. COLORADO ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION, a non-profit Colorado corporation, and The Wilderness Society, a non-profit District of Colombia corporation, Intervenor-Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

June 16, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig R. Carver, Alfers & Carver, L.L.C., Denver, CO, for Plaintiff.

Robert D. Clark, Asst. U.S. Atty., Denver, CO, Lyle K. Rising, Office of Regional Solicitor Rocky Mountain Region, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Lakewood, CO, for Defendants.

Munir R. Meghjee, Robert B. Wiygul, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Denver, CO, for Intervenor-Defendants.


ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS

KANE, Senior District Judge.

Marathon Oil Company asserts the Defendants have breached their legal duties in depriving it of its right to bid competitively on oil and gas lease tracts which ought, under governing law and the Secretary of the Department of Interior's (the "Secretary's") own regulations, to have been offered for sale.

Pending are the Federal Defendants' motion to dismiss and Marathon's brief in support of...

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