STANDARD OIL CO. v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION

Nos. C76-1279, C76-1288, C76-1344, C77-11, C77-82, C77-92, C77-168, C77-187 and C77-406.

440 F.Supp. 328 (1977)

STANDARD OIL COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION, and John F. O'Leary, Administrator, Federal Energy Administration, Defendants. SUN OIL COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and John F. O'Leary, Administrator, Defendants. MOBIL OIL CO., Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and John F. O'Leary, Administrator, Defendants. TEXACO, INC., Plaintiff, v. John F. O'LEARY, Administrator and Federal Energy Administration, Defendants. GULF OIL CO., Plaintiff, v. John F. O'LEARY, Administrator and Federal Energy Administration, Defendants. SHELL OIL CO., Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION et al., Defendants. AMOCO OIL CO., Plaintiff, v. John F. O'LEARY, Administrator, Federal Energy Administration, Defendants. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO., Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and John F. O'Leary, Administrator, Federal Energy Administration, Defendants. EXXON CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. John F. O'LEARY, Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration and Federal Energy Administration, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Ohio, E. D.

July 21, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Allen Babcock, Stanley D. Rose, C. Max Vassanelli, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., D. D. Weisberger, Asst. U. S. Atty., Cleveland, Ohio, for defendants Federal Energy Administration; John F. O'Leary, Administrator, Federal Energy Administration.

David A. Nelson, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiff Standard Oil Co.

William H. Allen, James Baller, Robert D. Daniel, Covington & Burling, Washington, D. C.; William T. Smith, Calfee, Halter & Griswold, Cleveland, Ohio; Edward J. Ciechon, Jr., C. S. LeBaron, Sun Oil Co., Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff Sun Oil Co. of Pa.

Andrew J. Kilcarr, Washington, D. C., Thomas R. Trowbridge, III, New York City, Arthur F. Zalud, Cleveland, Ohio, Charles S. Lindberg, Mobil Oil Co., New York City, for plaintiff Mobil Oil Co.

Smith Warder, Cleveland, Ohio, William R. Slye, New York City, for plaintiff Texaco.

John M. Cronquist, Cleveland, Ohio, Catherine McCulley, Gulf Oil Corp., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff Gulf Oil Corp.

Louis Paisley, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiff Amoco Oil Co.

Sterling Newell, Jr., James A. Dull, Spieth, Bell, McCurdy & Newell Co., L. P. A., Cleveland, Ohio, Richard C. Morse, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff Atlantic Richfield.

Donald B. Craven, A. Theodore Giattina, Miller & Chevalier, Washington, D. C., Michael R. Gallagher, Allan M. Petrov, Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton, Norman & Mollison, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiff Exxon Corp.

William Simon, William E. Wickens, Richard A. Kleine, Lesley A. Moradian, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D. C., Wayne C. Dabb, Jr., Baker, Hostetler & Patterson, Cleveland, Ohio, William A. Wood, Shell Oil Co., Houston, Tex., for plaintiff Shell Oil Co.

Alan Novins, Lobel, Novins & Lamot, Washington, D. C., for Consumers Union, amicus curiae.


MEMORANDUM OF OPINION DENYING THE DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS

MANOS, District Judge.

Between December 6, 1976 and April 20, 1977, nine petroleum refining corporations1 filed complaints in this court seeking a preenforcement2 declaratory judgment invalidating the Federal Energy Administration's (FEA) current interpretation of the petroleum price control regulations that governed the petroleum market...

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