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MESA OPERATING LTD. v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. 89-4775.

931 F.2d 318 (1991)

MESA OPERATING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 27, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry E. Rothrock, Daniel M. Joseph, Susan Brooks, Catherine Fairley Spillman, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington, D.C., James R. Nieset, Christopher Thompson, Plauche, Smith & Nieset, Amarillo, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

George J. Domas, Deborah Bahn Price, New Orleans, La., for amici, Amoco, et al.

Arthur M. (Russ) Meyer, Jr., Sifford, Edson, Meyer & Jones, Dallas, Tex., T.L. Cubbage, II, Jennifer S. Goering, Bartlesville, Okl., for amici Phillips Petroleum Co.

Lisa K. Hemmer, Atty., Dept. of Justice, William B. Lazarus, J. Carol Williams, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Land Div., Appellate Sec., Washington, D.C., for defendant-aqppellee.

Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, La., for Amoco, et al.

Before BROWN, POLITZ, and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

The Director of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) division of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) ordered Mesa Operating Limited Partnership (Mesa), which extracts natural gas from offshore leases, to pay royalties on reimbursement payments made to Mesa by pipeline company purchasers pursuant to the Natural Gas Policy Act (NGPA) § 110.1 The DOI affirmed the MMS demand order. Mesa appealed the...

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