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ROCKY MOUNTAIN OIL & GAS ASS'N v. ANDRUS

No. C78-265K.

500 F.Supp. 1338 (1980)

ROCKY MOUNTAIN OIL AND GAS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, and Leo Krulitz, Solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior, Defendants, and Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Wildlife Federation, and Wilderness Society, Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Wyoming.

November 7, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig R. Carver and Pamela A. Ray of Head, Moye, Carver & Ray, Denver, Colo., and Houston G. Williams and Barry G. Williams of Williams, Porter, Day & Neville, Casper, Wyo., for plaintiff.

Charles E. Graves, U. S. Atty. for the District of Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Caroline P. Osolinik and Steven A. Herman of the Land and Natural Resources Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Laurens H. Silver of Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., San Francisco, Cal., and John D. Wiener, Laramie, Wyo., for intervenors.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KERR, District Judge.

The dispute in this case involves several millions of acres of land which are to be considered for wilderness designation by Congress under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, 43 U.S.C. § 1701, et seq. Jurisdiction is based on federal question, 28 U.S.C. § 1331(a). Some of the lands in question are located in Wyoming and therefore venue is properly invoked.

Plaintiff Rocky Mountain Oil and...

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