NATIONAL HELIUM CORPORATION v. MORTON

Civ. A. No. W-4568.

361 F.Supp. 78 (1973)

NATIONAL HELIUM CORPORATION, Plaintiff, Phillips Petroleum Company and Cities Service Helex, Inc., Intervenors, v. Rogers C. B. MORTON, Secretary of the Interior, and Elburt F. Osborn, Director, Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

June 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmet A. Blaes, of Jochems, Sargent & Blaes, Wichita, Kan., Raymond S. E. Pushkar, Herbert L. Fenster, Herbert L. Fenster, Robert L. Ackerly, of Sellers Conner & Cuneo, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Harlington Wood, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Harland F. Leathers, Stuart E. Schiffer, Raymond D. Battacchi, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert J. Roth, U. S. Atty., E. Edward Johnson, Asst. U. S. Atty., John J. Immel, Wichita, Kan., for defendants.


DECISION AND OPINION OF THE COURT

THEIS, District Judge.

On March 27, 1971, this Court temporarily enjoined the Secretary of the Interior from terminating the National Helium Conservation Program as implemented by three helium procurement contracts entered into with the plaintiffs prior to a hearing on the merits or, alternatively, a reconsideration by the Department of Interior of its action in the light of the applicable substantive and procedural requirements...

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