TENNECO OIL CO. v. SAC & FOX TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKL.

No. 83-1061.

725 F.2d 572 (1984)

TENNECO OIL COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The SAC AND FOX TRIBE OF INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA, John R. Thorpe, Gaylon R. Franklin, Henrietta Mamie Massey, Thomas Morris, Jr., and Hazel R. Williamson, Defendants-Appellees, The United States Department of the Interior and James G. Watt, Secretary, United States Department of the Interior, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

January 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley L. Cunningham, Oklahoma City, Okl. (John N. Hermes and Steven W. Bugg, Oklahoma City, Okl., with him on the brief, McAfee & Taft, P.C., James A. Hannah and Linda M. Harris, Oklahoma City, Okl., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

F. Browning Pipestem, Norman, Okl. (G. William Rice, Norman, Okl., with him on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before SETH, Chief Judge, McKAY, Circuit Judge, and BRATTON, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

The Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians (the Tribe) issued oil and gas leases for trust lands. The plaintiff Tenneco Oil Company subsequently acquired an interest in one of these leases. The lease provides that its terms will be subject to and governed by federal law. Almost fifty years after the issuance of the original lease, the Tribe enacted several ordinances purporting to impose certain licensing, organizational...

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