Legal Opinion
Shell Oil Company and D. A. Shale, Inc. v. Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary of the Interior
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 25, 1979No. 77-1346PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SETH, Chief Judge.
The Secretary of the Interior issued in September of 1964 an administrative complaint asserting that the shale oil placer mining claims here in issue were invalid. The grounds advanced for the contest were that they did not contain valuable minerals on February 25, 1920, nor do such minerals now exist on the claims. There were also applications for patent then pending. The contest proceedings were heard over a five-month period by Administrative Law Judge Dalby in 1967, and he announced his decision in 1970. Twenty-six witnesses appeared; there were some 1700 exhibits, and…
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3Cited by12 opinions
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