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CHIEFTAIN ROYALTY CO. v. ENERVEST ENERGY INST.

No. 16-6022, No. 16-6025.

861 F.3d 1182 (2017)

CHIEFTAIN ROYALTY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ENERVEST ENERGY INSTITUTIONAL FUND XIII-A, L.P.; Enervest Energy Institutional Fund XIII-WIB, L.P.; Enervest Energy Institutional Fund XIII-WIC, L.P.; Enervest Operating, L.L.C.; Fourpoint Energy, L.L.C., Defendants-Appellees, and SM Energy Company, (including predecessors, successors and affiliates), Defendant. Danny George, personally and as Executor of the Estate of Beverly Joyce George, Objector-Appellant. Chieftain Royalty Company, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Enervest Energy Institutional Fund XIII-A, L.P.; Enervest Energy Institutional Fund XIII-WIB, L.P.; Enervest Energy Institutional Fund XIII-WIC, L.P.; Enervest Operating, LLC; Fourpoint Energy, LLC, Defendants-Appellees, and SM Energy Company, including predecessors, successors and affiliates, Defendant. Charles David Nutley, Objector-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED July 3, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Pentz , Sudbury, Massachusetts, for Objector-Appellant Danny George.

Eric Alan Isaacson , La Jolla , California ( C. Benjamin Nutley , Pasadena, California, and John W. Davis , San Diego, California, with him on the briefs), for Objector-Appellant Charles David Nutley.

Daniel S. Volchok , WilmerHale, Washington, D.C. ( Bradley E. Beckworth , Susan Whatley , and Jeffrey J. Angelovich , Nix, Patterson & Roach, LLP, Austin, Texas, and Robert N. Barnes , and Patranell Britten Lewis , Barnes & Lewis, LLP, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellee Chieftain Royalty Company.

Mark D. Christiansen , McAfee & Taft, P.C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees, Enervest Energy Institional Fund XIII-A, L.P., et al.

Before HARTZ and HOLMES, Circuit Judges.

After settlement of a class action for royalties from gas wells, the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma awarded attorney fees to class counsel and an incentive award to the lead plaintiff to be paid out of the common fund shared by class members. The court rejected claims by two objectors, and...

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