EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION f/k/a Exxon Corporation
v.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES et al.
Supreme Court of Alabama.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 1, 2007.
November 1, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David R. Boyd and W. Joseph McCorkle, Jr., of Balch & Bingham, LLP, Montgomery; Sam C. Pointer, Jr., Samuel H. Franklin, and M. Christian King of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC, Birmingham; Ernest C. Terry of McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, LLP, Houston, Texas; and Walter E. Dellinger III, John F. Daum, and Charles C. Lifland of O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Washington, D.C., for appellant.
Troy King, atty. gen.; Charles J. Cooper, deputy atty. gen., and Vincent J. Colatriano, Derek L. Shaffer, and Nicholas A. Oldham of Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Jere Locke Beasley and J. Cole Portis of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC, Montgomery; John T. Crowder, deputy atty. gen., and Robert T. Cunningham, Jr., Richard T. Dorman, David G. Wirtes, Jr., and George M. Dent of Cunningham, Bounds, Yance, Crowder & Brown, LLC, Mobile, for appellees.
Robin Stead, Noble, Oklahoma, for amicus curiae National Association of Royalty Owners, Inc., in support of the appellees.
William T. Stephens, Montgomery, for the Retirement Systems of Alabama; Mac McArthur, Montgomery, for the Alabama State Employees' Association; and Joseph P. Borg, Montgomery, for the Alabama Securities Commission, for amici curiae the Retirement Systems of Alabama consisting of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama and the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama; the Alabama Securities Commission; and the Alabama State Employees' Association, in support of the appellees.
Erik S. Jaffe, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund, in support of the appellees.
Aleta Pillick, asst. atty. gen., State of Alaska, for amici curiae States of Alaska, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Delaware, Illinois, New Mexico, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, and Massachusetts, in support of the appellees.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
PARKER, Justice.
Exxon Mobil Corporation formerly known as Exxon Corporation ("Exxon") appeals from a judgment in favor of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources ("DCNR") and the commissioner of DCNR (hereinafter referred to collectively as "the State") in a declaratory-judgment action filed by Exxon. The State filed a counterclaim in that action alleging breach of contract and fraud in Exxon's performance under certain oil and gas leases. The...
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