Legal Opinion
Pratt v. Watkins
Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
Decided September 12, 1991No. 5-129PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THORNBERRY, Judge:
The operator of several oil leases violated petroleum price regulations by misclas-sifying certain oil wells as stripper wells. Under a theory of restitution, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued a proposed remedial order seeking to recover a portion of these overcharges from Joe N. Pratt, a passive working interest owner who had the right to receive twenty percent of the proceeds generated by the sale of this oil but who was not involved in the operator’s pricing decisions. Pratt contested the proposed remedial order, asserting that he never received his share of the…
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