UNITED STATES
v.
LOCKE, GOVERNOR OF WASHINGTON, et al.
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Argued December 7, 1999.
Decided March 6, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David C. Frederick argued the cause for the United States in No. 98-1701. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Waxman, Acting Assistant Attorney General Ogden, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, Douglas N. Letter, Michael Jay Singer, H. Thomas Byron III, David R. Andrews, Judith Miller, Nancy E. McFadden, Paul M. Geier, Dale C. Andrews, James S. Carmichael, Malcolm J. Williams, Jr., and Paul M. Wasserman. C. Jonathan Benner argued the cause for petitioner in No. 98-1706. With him on the briefs were Timi E. Nickerson and Sean T. Connaughton.
William Berggren Collins, Senior Assistant Attorney General of Washington, argued the cause for respondents in both cases. With him on the brief for the state respondents were Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General, and Jay D. Geck, Thomas C. Morrill, and Jerri Lynn Thomas, Assistant Attorneys General. Jeffrey L. Needle filed a brief for respondent Washington Environmental Council et al. With him on the brief was John M. MacDonald.†
Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
United States Supreme Court.
Justice Kennedy, delivered the opinion of the Court.
The maritime oil transport industry presents ever-present, all too real dangers of oil spills from tanker ships, spills which could be catastrophes for the marine environment. After the supertanker Torrey Canyon spilled its cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil off the coast of Cornwall, England, in 1967, both Congress and the State of Washington enacted more stringent...
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