Legal Opinion
Hunt v. Mobil Oil Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 23, 1987No. 75 Civ. 1160 (EW)PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.
In March 1975, plaintiffs, Nelson Bunker Hunt, Herbert Hunt and Lamar Hunt, (“the Hunts,”) independent oil producers, commenced this action against the world’s seven largest oil producing companies: Exxon, British Petroleum (“BP”), Shell, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron and Gulf, (“the Majors”), Occidental Petroleum Corporation (“Occidental”) and six other independent oil companies (“the Independents”) charging them with antitrust violations and breach of an agreement. The basic controversy centered about the Libyan Production Agreement (“LPA”), entered into in…
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