DallasNews.com: ChevronTexaco, Shell face price fixing case
03:10 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 1, 2004
Bloomberg News
Posted 2 June 04
Royal Dutch/Shell Group and ChevronTexaco Corp. must face an antitrust lawsuit brought by Los Angeles-area gasoline dealers who claim the companies conspired to fix gas prices, an appeals court ruled.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco revived the suit brought on behalf of 23,000 Los Angeles-area service station owners. The station owners claim the oil companies created joint ventures Equilon Enterprises and Motiva Enterprises as a guise to overcharge dealers. Texaco Inc. sold its stake in the ventures to gain approval of its 2001 acquisition by Chevron Corp.
The U.S. General Accounting Office said today a study showed the joint ventures resulted in higher gasoline prices in cities where the companies supplied gasoline before ChevronTexaco and Shell combined refining and marketing efforts. The appeals court reversed a judge who had dismissed the case.
The oil companies “have failed to produce sufficient evidence demonstrating that their price fixing scheme was ancillary rather than naked,” Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote on behalf of a three-judge panel.
The 9th Circuit affirmed U.S. District Judge George H. King’s decision to dismiss the suit against Saudi Refining Co, which partnered with the companies to form Motiva.
The case is Dagher v. Saudi Refining, et al No. 02-56509 in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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