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GEOSEARCH, INC. v. ANDRUS

No. C80-300K.

517 F.Supp. 1245 (1981)

GEOSEARCH, INC., Plaintiff, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior; Maxwell T. Lieurance, State Director, Wyoming State Office, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Glenna M. Lane, Chief, Oil and Gas Section, Wyoming State Office, Bureau of Land Management; Carol Lee Griebling; R. K. Cramer; Cities Service Company; Hudson Dean; V. M. Minor Breecher; George W. Speer; Robert L. Haynie; T. J. Nance, as trustee under Holly Fay Haynie, Ann Meloy, and Samuel Teflian Trusts; Barbara A. Ryals; and Betty C. Cramer, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Wyoming.

July 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin E. Leslie, Salt Lake City, Utah, for plaintiff.

Francis Leland Pico, Asst. U. S. Atty., D. Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyo., Kathryn A. Oberly and Margaret A. Weekes, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary of the Interior, Maxwell T. Lieurance, State Director, Wyoming State Office, Bureau of Land Management, Dept. of the Interior, and Glenna M. Lane, Chief, Oil and Gas Section, Wyoming State Office, Bureau of Land Management.

Morris R. Massey and Claude W. Martin of Brown, Drew, Apostolos, Massey & Sullivan, Casper, Wyo. and David B. Sonosky of Cities Service Co., Tulsa, Okl., for defendant Cities Service Co.

John A. Hutchings of Holm & Dill, P. C., Denver, Colo., and James H. Barrett of Trierweiler, Bayless, Barrett & McCartney, Cheyenne, Wyo., for defendants Betty C. Cramer, Barbara A. Ryals and V. M. Minor Breecher.

Richard L. Schrepferman of Holme, Roberts & Owen, Denver, Colo., and Carl L. Lathrop of Lathrop & Uchner, Cheyenne, Wyo., for defendants George W. Speer, Robert L. Haynie and T. J. Nance.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KERR, District Judge.

This case arises under the simultaneous oil and gas leasing system and the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended, 41 Stat. 437, 30 U.S.C. § 181, et seq.

Plaintiff Geosearch, Inc. (Geosearch) is an organization which sends standardized form letters to individuals who are second drawees in lotteries held by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the simultaneous oil and gas leasing system. The applicants...

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