J. Gregory MERRION and Robert L. Bayless, d/b/a Merrion and Bayless, Jerome T. McHugh, Chase Oil Company, Dugan Production Corporation, Consolidated Oil and Gas, Inc., Southland Royalty Company, Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, Amerada Hess, Supron Energy Corporation, Energy Reserves Group, Inc., J. M. Huber Corporation, Continental Oil Company, Atlantic Richfield Company, Phillips Petroleum Company, Tenneco Oil Company, Getty Oil Company, and Gulf Oil Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
JICARILLA APACHE TRIBE, Jicarilla Apache Tribal Council, and Cecil Andrus, Secretary of the Interior, Defendants-Appellants,
Mobile Oil Corporation and Oxy Petroleum, Inc., Intervenors-Appellees.
AMOCO PRODUCTION COMPANY and Marathon Oil Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
JICARILLA APACHE TRIBE, Jicarilla Apache Tribal Council, Gwendolyn Velarde, Treasurer of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe, Cecil Andrus, Secretary of the Interior, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued and Submitted September 12, 1979.
Decided February 22, 1980.
Rehearing Denied April 25, 1980.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert J. Nordhaus and Terry D. Farmer of Nordhaus, Moses & Dunn, Albuquerque, N. M., for defendants-appellants Jicarilla Apache Tribe, Jicarilla Apache Tribal Council and Gwendolyn Velarde.
Maryann Walsh, Atty., Washington, D. C. (James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sanford Sagalkin, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Neil T. Proto, Atty., Peter R. Steenland, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with her on the briefs), for defendant-appellant Cecil Andrus, Secretary of the Interior.
Bruce D. Black of Campbell, Bingaman & Black, P. A., Santa Fe, N. M., and Jason W. Kellahin of Kellahin & Kellahin, Santa Fe, N. M., for plaintiffs-appellees Merrion and Bayless, et al.
John R. Cooney of Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, Albuquerque, N. M. (R. H. Landt of Amoco Production Company, Denver, Colo., Richard L. Marler of Marathon Oil Company, Findlay, Ohio, Mark B. Thompson, III, of Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, Albuquerque, N. M., with him on the briefs), for plaintiffs-appellees Amoco Production Company and Marathon Oil Company.
George P. Vlassis, Phoenix, Ariz. (Lawrence A. Ruzow, Katherine Ott, Gary Verburg, Phoenix, Ariz., of counsel), of Vlassis, Ruzow & Crowder, Phoenix, Ariz., filed an amicus curiae brief for the Navajo Nation.
Reid Peyton Chambers of Sonosky, Chambers & Sachse, Washington, D. C. and Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., of counsel, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Shoshone Indian Tribe and the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes.
Charles A. Hobbs, Washington, D. C., filed an amicus curiae brief for National Congress of American Indians, Inc., the Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, and the Three Affiliated Tribes of The Fort Berthold Reservation.
Toney Anaya, Atty. Gen., and Jan Unna, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. of N. M., Santa Fe, N. M., filed an amicus curiae brief for the State of New Mexico.
Robert B. Hansen, Atty. Gen., Richard L. Dewsnup, Dallin W. Jensen, Frank V. Nelson, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, filed an amicus curiae brief for the State of Utah.
John J. Rooney, Acting Atty. Gen. of Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyo., Allen I. Olson, Atty. Gen. of North Dakota, Bismarck, N. D., and Mike Greeley, Atty. Gen. of Montana, Helena, Mont., filed an amicus curiae brief for the States of Wyoming, North Dakota and Montana.
Before SETH, Chief Judge, and HOLLOWAY, McWILLIAMS, BARRETT, DOYLE, McKAY and LOGAN, Circuit Judges (en banc).
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises out of two suits, consolidated for trial, brought by appellees against the Jicarilla Apache Tribe and its Tribal Council (the Tribe). Appellees (lessees), who are non-Indians, produce oil and gas from within the Tribe's reservation pursuant to leases granted them under the auspices of the Secretary of the Interior. After the Tribe enacted an oil and gas severance tax to be measured by production from oil and gas wells within...
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