Legal Opinion
Fender v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 2, 1978No. 76-3010PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:
The oil companies seek review in this circuit of the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator’s action in issuing a permit under 33 U.S.C. § 1342 concerning the discharge of effluents from off-shore drilling platforms located in the Atlantic Ocean. The EPA has moved that the petitions for review be dismissed or transferred. We deny the motion. The petitions were properly filed in this circuit and no equitable circumstances compel transfer of the petitions to another circuit.
The drilling platforms are not in any district in the Fifth Circuit or any other circuit.…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Federal Power Commission v. Texaco Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Eastern Air Lines, Inc., and National Airlines, Inc. v. Civil Aeronautics BoardCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
- Suttle v. Reich Bros. Construction Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company v. Federal Power CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
- Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Environmental Protection AgencyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1972
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Dresser Industries, Inc. And Consolidated Subsidiaries v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Killingsworth v. CommissionerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
- Compaq Computer Corporation & Subsidiaries v. CommissionerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2001
- Estate of Elbert B. Whitt, Loyd Whitt v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Federal Nat'l Mortgage Ass'n v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1993
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