RUTTER & WILBANKS CORP.; Elliott A. Riggs; William R. Thurston, Trustee; Gordon Tanner; Walter K. Arbuckle Trust; Eric B. Wells; Kevin C. Wells; Charles R. Wiggins; Ken Kamon, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
SHELL OIL COMPANY; Shell Western E & P, Inc.; Mobil Oil Corporation; Mobil Producing Texas & New Mexico, Inc.; Mobil Exploration & Producing, U.S., Inc.; Exxon Mobil, Inc.; Cortez Pipeline Company, a partnership; Shell CO2 Company, Ltd., a Texas limited partnership; Kinder Morgan CO2 Company, a Texas limited partnership, Defendants-Appellees,
W.M. Brelsford; Judith Walker Funk; Reed Gilmore And W.H. Gilmore, Jr., in their representative capacities as co-executors of the Estate of W.H. Gilmore, Sr. and Dorothy R. Gilmore; Peggy B. Stuart; Antelope Energy Co., LLC; Antelope Production Co.; William G. Kemp and Marie J. Bench, in their representative capacities as co-trustees of the Bernard M. Bench Family Trust, Objectors-Appellants.
Margaret Ann Ainsworth; Charles M. McAfee & Company; Dorothy Gail Chappell; John Larry Clark; Nelda Lee Barlow; Troy M. Oliver; Shorlene Oliver; Poverty Point Properties, L.P.; John H. Miller; Dee Renay; Hazel J. Neely; Ingrid Joann Hartley; Olivia Carson, Llc; Ina F. Gray; Barbara E. Glazner; John H. Glazner; Clara Cundiff; Estate of Velma Louise Henderson; Louis M. Gray; Kip E. Makeever; Edith Delight James; Laura H. Kennedy; Charles R. Wiggins; Elva Gorsuch; Ken Kamon; Jerry Chaffin; Dorothy Chaffin; Johnnie E. Duran; Victor Duran; LeRoy Oliver; J. Ellen Oliver; Wanda Heathman; Idene Minchin; Eric B. Wells; Kevin C. Wells; Wood Oil Company, Plaintiffs-appellees,
v.
Shell Oil Company; Shell Western E & P, Inc.; Mobil Oil Corporation; Mobil Producing Texas & New Mexico, Inc.; Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S., Inc.; Exxon Mobil, Inc.; Cortez Pipeline Company, a partnership; Shell CO2 Company, Ltd., a Texas limited partnership; Kinder Morgan CO2 Company, a Texas limited partnership, Defendants-Appellees,
Bruce Tefft; Lucinda Davis; Charles Butler, Objectors-Appellants.
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December 24, 2002.
December 24, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gary J. Cruciani, McKool Smith, P.C., Dallas, TX (Jean E. Dubofsky, Jean E. Dubofsky, P.C., Boulder, Colorado, and Dean Neuwirth, Burke & Neuwirth, P.C., with him on the briefs) for Objectors-Appellants.
Marie Roach Yeates, Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Houston, TX (Andrew McCollam III, Gwen J. Samora, Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Houston, Texas; Kent Sullivan, Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP, Kansas City, MO; Phillip D. Barber, Phillip D. Barber P.C., Denver, CO; Shannon H. Ratliff, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Austin, TX; Robert E. Youle, Brian G. Eberle, Sherman & Howard, L.L.C., Denver, CO; John F. Shepherd, Holland & Hart L.L.P., Denver, CO, with her on the briefs) for Defendants-Appellees.
John M. Cogswell, Buena Vista, Colorado and Michael J. Heaphy, Denver, CO, submitted a brief on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Before TACHA, ANDERSON, and EBEL, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.
STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises from the district court's approval of a $70 million class action settlement of four related cases involving the production of carbon dioxide (CO2) contained within the McElmo Dome Unit in Colorado. Appellants are eleven objectors ("Objectors") who assert interests in several small royalty and overriding royalty interests in the McElmo Dome Unit...
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