MUSTANG FUEL CORP. v. HATCH

Nos. CIV-88-1801-A, CIV-88-1954-A.

890 F.Supp. 995 (1995)

MUSTANG FUEL CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Viola HATCH, et al., Defendants. WARD PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. Juanita LEARNED, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Oklahoma.

As Amended and Reissued Nunc Pro Tunc July 18, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley L. Cunningham, Steven W. Bugg, McAfee & Taft, Oklahoma City, OK, for Mustang Production Co., Amoco Production Co., Anson Corp., Apache Corp., Conoco Inc., Phillips Petroleum Co., Sun Exploration and Production, Mesa Midcontinent Ltd. Partnership, Texaco Inc., Texaco Producing Inc., Union Oil Co. of California, NGC Energy Co., Bogert Oil Co., Kaiser Francis Oil Co., Seneca Oil Co., Unit Drilling and Exploration Co., Viersen & Cochran, Mustang Fuel Corp., Oryx Energy Co., Mesa Midcontinent Co., Texaco Exploration & Production Inc., PG & E Resources Co., Louis Dreyfus Nat. Gas Corp., Unit Petroleum Co., Bracken Energy Corp., Santa Fe Minerals, Inc., Kenneth W. Cory.

James R. Winnie, Oklahoma City, OK, for Juanita Learned, Edgar Heap-of-Birds, Floyd Blackbear, Jonathan Burgess, Christine George, Kris Littleraven, Marlin Hawk.

James R. Winnie, Melody L. McCoy, Yvonne T. Knight, Boulder, CO, for Alton Harrison, Viola Hatch.

Melody L. McCoy, Yvonne T. Knight, Boulder, CO, for Charles Surveyer, Archie Hoffman, Robert Tabor, Glen Starr, Sr., Eddie Wilson, Leslie Medicine Bear, John Fletcher, Sr., Barbara Koebrick, Ruby Standingwater, Millicent Youngbear.

Bradley S. Bridgewater, US Dept. of Justice, Denver, CO, for U.S.

Michael E. Smith, Barnes Smith & Lewis, Oklahoma City, OK, for Ward Petroleum Corp.


ORDER

ALLEY, District Judge.

Before the Court are cross-motions for summary judgment filed by all parties in these consolidated cases. The parties seek a ruling on the validity of a tax law enacted by the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma (the "Tribes") in 1988 that imposes a severance tax on all oil and gas produced from lands within the Tribes' territorial jurisdiction. The principal issue is: what is that territorial jurisdiction?

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