Legal Opinion
Davilla v. Enable Midstream Partners L.P.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 10, 2019No. 17-6088PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge.
Enable Intrastate Transmission, LLC owns and operates a natural gas pipeline that crosses Indian allotted land in Anadarko, Oklahoma. A twenty-year easement for the pipeline expired in 2000. Enable failed to renew the easement but also failed to remove the pipeline. In response, roughly three-dozen individual Native American Allottees-who hold equitable title in the allotted land-filed this lawsuit.
The district court granted summary judgment to the Allottees, ruling on the basis of stipulated facts that Enable was liable for trespass. The court then enjoined the…
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