Texaco Inc. v. Duhé

GREENBERG, Circuit Judge:

This matter comes on before this court on appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana entered on March 21, 2000, making final an order granting partial summary judgment to the plaintiffs-appellees, Texaco Inc. and Texaco Exploration and Production Inc. (“Texaco”) entered on February 22, 2000. The district court granted Texaco a summary judgment dismissing the claim of the defendants-appellants, John M. Duhé, Jr., Gladys Duhé Deutschle, and Joseph Preston Duhé (“Duhés”) and Edna Aekal Bower and Elias Ackal (“Ackals”),…