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PAULEY PETROLEUM INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 197-69.

591 F.2d 1308 (1979)

PAULEY PETROLEUM INC. et al. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

January 24, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Ohl, New York City, attorney of record, for plaintiffs. H. Richard Schumacher, Frank W. Krogh, Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, and Edward Kliewer, Jr., Dallas, Tex., of counsel.

Myles E. Flint, Washington, D.C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen., James W. Moorman, Washington, D.C., for defendant.

Before DAVIS, NICHOLS, KUNZIG, BENNETT, and SMITH, Judges, en banc.

OPINION

DAVIS, Judge:

Claimants are oil-company lessees of federal offshore lands in Santa Barbara Channel, California. Late in January 1969 there occurred, on another leasehold in that area, a very serious oil blowout. Plaintiffs' leaseholds were not physically affected by that incident but their contention is that their leasehold rights were frustrated, violated, and taken by the Government's conduct following the blowout.

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