CHITIMACHA TRIBE OF LOUISIANA v. HARRY L. LAWS CO.

No. 80-3348.

690 F.2d 1157 (1982)

The CHITIMACHA TRIBE OF LOUISIANA, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HARRY L. LAWS COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 14, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy J. D'Antonio, Harry Case Stansbury, New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Tunica-Biloxi Tribe and United Houma Nation, Donald Juneau, New Orleans, La., amicus curiae.

Russel J. Cremaldi, Morgan City, La., for E. J. Robicheaux, V. St. Blanc, S. B. Dinkins, H. H. Dinkins, S. Dinkins, G. Dinkins & L. Dinkins.

Patrick S. Ottinger, Lafayette, La., for Eason Oil Co.

Liskow & Lewis, Gene W. Lafitte, New Orleans, La., for Atlantic Richfield Co., Amoco Production Co. & Edgewater Oil Co.

McCloskey, Dennery, Page & Hennesy, New Orleans, La., J. William Vaudry, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Adeline Sugar Factory Co., R. Dupuy, E. Chance, B. Dupuy, Comeaux & Robert F. Giles & Fabiola M. Dupuy.

Gordon, Arata, McCollam & Watters, Sheryl L. Hopkins, New Orleans, La., for Tenneco Oil Co.

Robert C. Smith, New Orleans, La., for Amoco Production Co.

Alex P. Allain, Jeanerette, La., for Rodney J. Banta & Elizabeth Banta Lemaire.

Polack, Rosenberg, Rittenberg & Endom, Franklin V. Endom, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Michane P. Burns.

Timothy W. Cerniglia, New Orleans, La., for Texaco.

Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, M. Hampton Carver, John C. Christian, Charles D. Marshall, New Orleans, La., for Chevron Oil Co.

Onebane, Donohoe, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, Lawrence E. Donohue, Jr., Lafayette, La., for 30 unnamed defendants.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and GEE and GARZA, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 14, 1983.

CLARK, Chief Judge:

The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana brought this suit in the Western District of Louisiana claiming ownership of a large tract of land in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. They have named more than eighty St. Mary Parish landowners as defendants. The Chitimachas argue that three transfers of land in the eighteenth century from their ancestors to the defendants' predecessors in title were...

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