Legal Opinion
Trapper Mining Inc. v. Lujan
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 15, 1991No. Nos. 89-1372, 90-8025PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN P. MOORE, Circuit Judge.
In this consolidated appeal, the question before us is whether the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act (FCLAA) automatically converts the twenty-year readjustment interval in pre-FCLAA coal leases to ten-year intervals at the first post-FCLAA readjustment date. In a suit brought by Trapper Mining Inc., the United States District Court for the District of Colorado concluded that it does. Faced with the identical issue in a suit brought by Wyodak Resources Development Corp., the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming reached the opposite result,…
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