Legal Opinion
Amoco Production Company v. Thomas A. Fry, Director, Minerals Management Service
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 18, 1997No. 96-5030PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL.
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, companies holding federal leases for oil and gas production on the outer continental shelf, seek credits for hundreds of royalty overpayments made between 1990 and 1994. The Department of the Interior is withholding the overpayments pending resolution of its claims that the companies owe money from earlier royalty underpayments. The district court granted summary judgment for the Department, holding that neither the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act nor the Debt Collection Act requires the Department to…
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