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CLARKE COUNTY COM'N v. PRUET PRODUCTION CO.

Civil Action Nos. 96-0578-RV-S, 96-0579-RV-M, 96-0581-RV-C, 96-0582-RV-C, 96-0584-RV-C.

963 F.Supp. 1136 (1997)

CLARKE COUNTY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. PRUET PRODUCTION COMPANY and Exxon Corporation, Defendants. WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. AMOCO PRODUCTION COMPANY, Hughes Eastern Corporation, and Phillips Petroleum Company, Defendants. CHOCTAW COUNTY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. PRUET PRODUCTION COMPANY, and Vintage Petroleum, Inc., Defendants. MONROE COUNTY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. TORCH OPERATING COMPANY, INC., Texaco, Inc., and Pruet Production Company, Defendants. ESCAMBIA COUNTY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. AMERADA HESS CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Alabama.

March 31, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Stokes, Jr., Brewton, Rayford L. Etherton, Jr., Etherton Smith, Mobile, Richard L. Coffman, Provost & Umphrey Law Firm, Beaumont, TX, Steven A. Kanner, Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenbert & Ament, Chicago, IL, Steven Greenfogel, Meredith, Cohen & Greenfogel, Philadelphia, PA, J. Michael Fincher, J. Michael Fincher, P.C., Mobile, for plaintiffs.

Alan C. Christian, Mobile, David M. Castro, Houston, TX, for Amerada Hess Corporation.

Halron W. Turner, Edward P. Turner, Jr., David M. Huggins, Chatom, AL, for Amoco Production Co. in No. 96-0579-RV-S, Hughes Eastern Corp. in Nos. 96-0579-RV-S, and 96-0584-RV-S, Bishop Petroleum Inc. in No. 96-0584-RV-S.

Halron W. Turner, Chatom, AL, A. Danner Frazer, Jr., Mobile, AL, Edward P. Turner, Jr., David M. Huggins, Chatom, AL, Richard N. Carrell, Daniel M. McClure, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Phillips Petroleum in No. 96-0579-RV-S.

Ben H. Harris, Jr., Alan C. Christian, Ben H. Harris, Johnstone, Adams, Bailey, Gordon & Harris, Mobile, AL, for Exxon Corp. in No. 96-0578-RV-S.

W. Alexander Moseley, Mobile, AL, for Fina Oil, Chemical Co. in No. 96-0584-RV-S.

Norton W. Brooker, Jr., Wesley Pipes, Mobile, AL, for IP Petroleum Co., Inc. in No. 96-0584-RV-S.

Edward A. Dean, Duane A. Graham, Mobile, AL, Conrad P. Armbrecht, Armbrecht, Jackson, Demouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, AL, for Vintage Petroleum, Inc. in No. 96-0581-RV-S, Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. in No. 96-0584-RV-S.

Duane A. Graham, Mobile, AL, Rae M. Crowe, Armbrecht, Jackson, Demouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, AL, for Murphy Exploration and Production Co., Inc. in No. 96-0584-RV-S.

Duane A. Graham, Mobile, AL, Conrad P. Armbrecht, Rae M. Crowe, Armbrecht, Jackson, Demouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, AL, J. Randall Miller, Patricia Dunmire, Bragg, Garder & Wynne, Tulsa, OK, for Oxy USA, Inc. in No. 96-0584-RV-S.

George K. Elbrecht, Monroeville, AL, R. Boyd Miller, Mobile, AL, Patrick H. Sims, Mobile, AL, Hardie B. Kimbrough, Gilmore Law Office, Grove Hill, AL, for Pruet Production Co. in Nos. 96-0578-RV-S, 96-0581-RV-S, 96-0582-RV-S, 96-0584-RV-S.

Edward A. Dean, Duane A. Graham, Conrad P. Armbrecht, Armbrecht, Jackson, Demouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, AL, George S. Branch, James W. Boswell, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, Charles K. McKnight, Jr., Atlanta, GA, William T. Hankinson, Dallas, TX, for Texaco, Inc. in No. 96-0584-RV-S.

A. Danner Frazer, Jr., Mobile, AL, Gerard G. Pecht, Houston, TX, for Torch Operating Co., Inc. in No. 96-0582-RV-S.

Edward A. Dean, Duane A. Graham, Conrad P. Armbrecht, Armbrecht, Jackson, Demouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, AL, Robert E. Plumb, Texaco Inc., New Orleans, LA, George S. Branch, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, William T. Hankinson, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, TX, for Texaco Inc. in Nos. 96-0582-RV-C, 96-0584-RV-S.

ORDER1

VOLLMER, District Judge.

Presently before the court is defendants' Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss (Doc. 2 and 4) with a supporting memorandum (Doc. 5). Plaintiff has filed a memorandum in opposition (Doc. 7) that was met in return by a reply memorandum from defendants (Doc. 10).2 Subsequently, plaintiff filed a response memorandum (Doc. 15). Defendants rounded out the briefing...

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