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PULLMAN v. CHORNEY

Civ. A. No. 80-C-1095.

509 F.Supp. 162 (1981)

Paul PULLMAN, individually, and on behalf of other unsuccessful applicants similarly situated for oil and gas leases in Wyoming offered by the Bureau of Land Management under the Simultaneous Oil and Gas System, Plaintiff, v. Raymond CHORNEY, Joan Chorney, Chorney Oil Company, Seabrook Corporation, Lancaster Corporation, L. Stanley, Hazel Stanley, Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary of the Interior of the United States, Charles W. Duncan, Jr., Secretary of Energy of the United States and Maxwell T. Lieurance, Director of the Bureau of Land Management for the State of Wyoming, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

March 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowey, Dannenberg & Knapp, P. C., New York City, Theodore S. Halaby, Halaby & Bahr, Denver, Colo., for plaintiffs.

James E. Nesland and John E. Evans, Ireland, Stapleton & Pryor, Denver, Colo., W. H. Brown, Brown, Drew, Apostolos, Massey & Sullivan, Casper, Wyo., Daniel R. Christopher, Asst. U. S. Atty., Denver, Colo., Richard W. Levi, Asst. Atty. Gen., Land & Natural Resources Division, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CARRIGAN, District Judge.

This case raises some novel and complex issues regarding the ability of an unsuccessful applicant for a federal oil and gas lease to seek judicial invalidation of the lease after it has been granted to another person. The complaint, filed by the plaintiff on his own behalf and "on behalf of other unsuccessful applicants similarly situated for oil and gas leases in Wyoming offered by the Bureau of Land...

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