GEOSEARCH, INC. v. ANDRUS

Nos. C80-205K, C80-258K, C80-259K and C80-292K.

508 F.Supp. 839 (1981)

GEOSEARCH, INC., Plaintiff, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Wyoming.

February 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin E. Leslie, Salt Lake City, Utah, and James L. Huemoeller, Cheyenne, Wyo., for plaintiff.

Kathryn A. Oberly, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Toshirc Suyematsu, Asst. U. S. Atty., for the Dist. of Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyo., for Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary of the Interior.

Maxwell T. Lieurance, State Director, Bureau of Land Management, Dept. of the Interior, Glenna M. Lane, Chief, Oil and Gas Section, Wyoming State Bureau of Land Management, Dept. of the Interior, William J. Thomson, Cheyenne, Wyo., for Warren R. Haas and George B. Peays.

Hugh C. Garner, Salt Lake City, Utah, for Banner Oil & Gas Ltd.

Houston G. Williams, Casper, Wyo., and B. Lee Ware, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co.

Steve F. Freudenthal, Cheyenne, Wyo., for Sundance Oil Co.

John A. Hutchings, Denver, Colo., and James H. Barrett, Cheyenne, Wyo., for R. K. Cramer, Gemini Corp.

William E. Murane and John F. Shepherd, Denver, Colo., for Barbara Davis and Davis Oil Co.

Robert C. Hawley and Gretchen A. Vanderwerf, Denver, Colo., for Dome Petroleum Corp.

Robert C. Grable, Fort Worth, Tex., for Bass Enterprises Production Co.

Brent R. Kunz, Cheyenne, Wyo., for Bonnie J. Brown and Maurice W. Brown.

John W. Madden, III, Denver, Colo., for Johnson-Mizel Oil Co. and Eva Hecht.

Jerome F. Statkus, Cheyenne, Wyo., for Robert Cieslik and Resource Service Co., Inc.

Morris R. Massey and Claude W. Martin, Casper, Wyo., for J. S. Harrell, General American Oil Co. of Tex., Charles E. Johnson, Elias F. Galeotos, A. G. Andrikopoulos, Thomas Wittenwyler, Rex H. Richardson, Inexco Oil Co., Harrell & Bradshaw, Louisiana Land and Exploration Corp., E. C. Markley and A. Lansdale.

Marilyn S. Kite, Laramie, Wyo., for Banner Oil & Gas Ltd., Barbara Davis and Davis Oil Co. and Bass Enterprises Production Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION.

KERR, Senior District Judge.

These four cases arise under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended, 41 Stat. 437, 30 U.S.C. §§ 181-226. There are common issues of fact and law in all four cases and this Court ordered on November 19, 1980 that the four cases be consolidated.

The plaintiff in all four cases is Geosearch, Inc. (Geosearch). Geosearch is an organization which sends standardized form letters to second drawees...

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