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STATE OF LOUISIANA v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 86-0924 "L".

656 F.Supp. 1310 (1986)

STATE OF LOUISIANA, ex rel. William J. GUSTE, Jr., Attorney General, v. The UNITED STATES of America; the Secretary of the Interior; the Director of the Minerals Management Service; and Samedan Oil Corporation.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Lafayette-Opelousas Division.

December 19, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Gary L. Keyser and Mary Ellen Leeper, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff.

Lawrence Moon, Asst. U.S. Atty., Lafayette, La., for USA and Director of the Mineral Management Service.

Lawrence E. Donohoe, Robert K. Reeves, Randall C. Songy, Patrick G. Tracey, Jr. and R. Thomas Jordan, Jr., Onebane, Donohoe, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, Lafayette, La., for Samedan Oil Corp.

Charles W. Findlay, Lisa Hemmer and Poe Legette, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Land and Natural Resources Div.

George W. Hardy, III, Michael R. Mangham and Louis R. Davis, Broadhurst, Brook, Mangham & Hardy, Lafayette, La., for Cashco Oil Co.

L. Todd Gremillion, Dotson, Babcock & Scofield, Houston, Tex., and Andrew L. Gates, III, Dotson, Babcock & Scofield, Lafayette, La., for Seneca Resources Corp.

B.J. Duplantis, Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Stuart & Duplantis, Lafayette, La., for Pelto Oil Co.

OPINION

DUHE, District Judge.

A celebrated observer of American government once wrote "[s]carcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question." de Tocqueville, Democracy In America 280 (1956 ed.). The validity of that comment, penned more than one hundred and fifty years ago, is demonstrated by this case. This Court is called upon to resolve a suit brought by the State of Louisiana...

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