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Standard Oil Company of California et al. v. United States, 1940 — 309 U.S. 654 · caselaw · US
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Standard Oil Company of California et al. v. United States
309 U.S. 654·Supreme Court of the United States·1940
Mr. Justice Stone took no part in the consideration and decision of this application.
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Opinion
No. 604.
Standard Oil Company of California et al. v. United States.
January 29, 1940.
Messrs. Oscar Lawler, Donald R. Richberg, Eugene M. Prince, and William H. Burges for petitioners.
Solicitor. General Jackson, Mr. John W. Preston and Annette Abbott Adams for the United States.
By leave of Court, briefs of amici curiae were filed by Messrs. Edward D. Landels and Stanley A. Weigel, on behalf of the California Land Title Assn.; and by Messrs Earl Warren, Attorney General of California, Robert W. Harrison, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and F. Walter French. Deputy Attorney General, on behalf of that State, — in support of the petition.
[MAJORITY]
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.
Mr. Justice Stone took no part in the consideration and decision of this application.