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MESA PETROLEUM CO. v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

Civ. A. No. 84-1967-LC.

647 F.Supp. 1350 (1986)

MESA PETROLEUM COMPANY v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Lake Charles Division.

November 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Lane Plauche and James R. Nieset, Plauche, Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, La., Daniel Joseph, Jerry E. Rothrock and David A. Holzworth, Washington, D.C., Betty H. Little, Mesa Petroleum Co., Amarillo, Tex., for plaintiff.

Rebecca A. Donnellan, Land & Natural Resources, Div. U.S., Dept. of Justice, Geoffrey Heath, Office of the Sol., Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D.C., Lawrence W. Moon, Asst. U.S. Atty., Lafayette, La., for defendant.

OPINION

VERON, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Mesa Petroleum Company ("Mesa"), has leased certain offshore lands from the United States. In this declaratory judgment action Mesa challenges the authority of the defendant, the United States Department of the Interior ("DOI"), to require Mesa to pay royalties on monies Mesa receives from Tennessee Pipeline Company ("Tennessee") as "take-or-pay" payments made pursuant to the terms of a natural gas purchase and...

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