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COMSTOCK OIL & GAS, INC. v. ALABAMA AND COUSHATTA INDIAN

No. 9:99CV31.

78 F.Supp.2d 589 (1999)

COMSTOCK OIL & GAS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. ALABAMA AND COUSHATTA INDIAN TRIBES OF TEXAS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Lufkin Division.

December 28, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Ellen Mack, Bradley Carroll Weber, Locke Lidddell & Sapp, Dallas, TX, Stacy Lee Williams, Liddell Sapp Zivley Hill & LaBoon LLP, Houston, TX, for Comstock Oil & Gas, Inc.

Michael Thomas Powell, Haynes & Boone, Houston, TX, for Oryx Energy Co., Sun Operating Ltd. Partnership.

Kenneth R. Breitbeil, McFall Sherwood & Sheehy PC, Houston, TX, for Union Oil Co. of California.

Russell D. Leachman, Diamond Rash Gordon & Jackson, El Paso, TX, Keith D. Spickelmier, Michael David Sydow, Verner Liipfert Bernhard McPherson and Hand, Houston, TX, for Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas, Morris R. Bullock, Perry D. Williams, Melinda L. Sylestine, Kevin P. Battise, McClamroch Battise, Sidney Poncho, Edwin D. Battise.

Roger R. Martella, Jr., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Dept. of Interior.

ORDER

PAUL N. BROWN, District Judge.

Pending before the court is Defendants' Motion to Dismiss the Original Complaint. The court, having considered the motion, responses, and replies, is of the opinion that the motion should be GRANTED IN PART and DENIED IN PART.

INTRODUCTION

Defendant the Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas is a federally recognized Indian Tribe which controls lands set aside and held in trust for...

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