Gulf Oil Corp. v. Clark

MEMORANDUM OPINION

CAMPOS, District Judge.

This case is before the Court on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment. The Court has considered the parties’ memoranda and the record of this case, and finds and concludes that the Motion is not well-taken and should be denied.

BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs brought this action requesting judicial review of a final decision of the Department of the Interior 1 which upheld a Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) decision to readjust the royalties and conditions of two 1961 coal leases pursuant to the Federal Coal Leasing Amendment Act of 1976. 2

On April 1, 1961,…