STATE OF LA. EX REL. GUSTE v. U.S.

No. 87-4106.

832 F.2d 935 (1987)

STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. William J. GUSTE, Jr., Attorney General, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Cashco Oil Co., et al., Intervenors-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Hardy, III, Mangham, Hardy, Rolfs, Bailey & Abadie, Lafayette, La., for Cashco Oil Co.

L. Todd Gremillion, Sheila R. Tweed, Dotson, Babcock & Scofield, Houston, Tex., for Seneca Resources Corp.

B.J. Duplantis, Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Stuart & Duplantis, Lafayette, La., for Pelto Oil Co.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Gary L. Keyser, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mary Ellen Leeper, Baton Rouge, La., for State of La.

D.H. Perkins, Jr., U.S. Atty., Lafayette, La., for USA & Director of the Mineral Mgmt. Serv.

Onebane, Donohoe, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, Lawrence E. Donohoe, Jr., Randall C. Songy, Patrick G. Tracy, Jr., Lafayette, La., for Samedan Oil Corp.

Charles W. Findlay, Land & Natural Resources Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Robert L. Klarquist, Appellate Section, Jacques B. Gelin, Lawrence W. Moon, Asst. U.S. Atty., Lafayette, La., for Secretary of Interior.

Before REAVLEY, WILLIAMS and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 23, 1987.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

Louisiana sued the United States and a federal lessee operating on the Outer Continental Shelf for violations of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C. § 1331 et seq. (1986), and an alleged policy agreement between Louisiana and the United States. The district court entered summary judgment for the United States and its lessee, 656 F.Supp...

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