CHEVRON USA, INC. v. CAYETANO

No. 99-15108.

224 F.3d 1030 (2000)

CHEVRON USA, INC., a Pennsylvania Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Benjamin J. CAYETANO, Governor of the State of Hawaii; Earl I. Anzai, Attorney General of the State of Hawaii, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack A. Rosenzweig and Ted Gamble Clause, Deputy Attorneys General, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the defendants-appellants.

Robert C. Phelps and Craig E. Stewart, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: D. W. NELSON, BEEZER, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Judge BEEZER; Concurrence by Judge W. FLETCHER.

BEEZER, Circuit Judge:

Hawaii Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano and Attorney General Earl I. Anzai (collectively "the State") appeal the district court's judgment in favor of Chevron U.S.A., Inc. Chevron filed suit for declaratory and injunctive relief against enforcement of Section 3(c) of Act 257 of the 1997 Hawaii State Legislature ("Act 257"). Act 257, inter alia, proscribes the maximum rent that oil...

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