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SANTA FE SNYDER CORP. v. NORTON

No. 03-30648.

385 F.3d 884 (2004)

SANTA FE SNYDER CORP.; Ocean Energy Inc.; Basin Exploration Inc.; Shell Offshore Inc.; Devon Energy Production Company LP, formerly known as Santa Fe Snyder Corp.; Devon SFS Operating Inc.; Stone Energy LLC, formerly known as Basin Exploration Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Gale NORTON, Secretary Department of Interior; Rebecca Watson, Assistant Secretary Land and Minerals Management, Department of Interior; Rejane Medinger Burton, Director Minerals Management Service, Department of Interior, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 4, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Berry St. John, Jr., Jonathan Andrew Hunter (argued), Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Aaron Peter Avila (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Nat. Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before JOLLY, DAVIS and JONES, Circuit Judges.

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs, who are lessees (the "Lessees") under offshore federal lease OCS-G 18192, assert that the United States Department of the Interior ("Interior"), Minerals Management Service ("MMS"), regulations implementing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act of 1995 ("RRA") conflict with the act itself and are unlawful. The Lessees also challenge the Interior's final agency decision denying the...

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