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MRT EXPLORATION CO. v. McNAMARA

Nos. 83-4238, 83-4239.

731 F.2d 260 (1984)

MRT EXPLORATION COMPANY, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Shirley McNAMARA, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Revenue and Taxation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 3, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shotwell, Brown & Sperry, James H. Napper, II, Monroe, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Malcolm S. Murchison, Joseph L. Hargrove, Jr., Shreveport, La., for Pennzoil Producing Co.

J. Edgerton Pierson, Jr., Shreveport, La., for Arkla.

Pugh & Pugh, Robert G. Pugh, Jr., Robert G. Pugh, Shreveport, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before GEE, POLITZ and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs appeal the district court's dismissal of their complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The district court based dismissal on the jurisdictional bar of the Tax Injunction Act of 1937, 28 U.S.C. § 1341. We affirm.

During the 1950's and 1960's, the plaintiff corporations entered into oil and gas leases with the federal government. The leases encompassed both privately owned property and acreage within Barksdale...

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