Supreme Court of the United States June 26, 2000, 99-244 (Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States)

Justice Stevens,

dissenting.

Since the 1953 passage of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), 43 U. S. C. § 1331 et seq., the United States Government has conducted more than a hundred lease sales of the type at stake today, and bidders have paid the United States more than $55 billion for the opportunity to develop the mineral resources made available under those leases.