Legal Opinion
Superior Oil Co. v. City of Port Arthur
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided February 17, 1982No. Civ. A. B-80-459-CAPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
ROBERT M. PARKER, District Judge.
This suit is brought on behalf of the Superior Oil Company, in which they allege an infringement of their right under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution to be free of the deprivation of their property by a state without due process of law. The defendant, The City of Port Arthur, through a series of annexations in 1979 1 brought within its municipal boundaries a strip of submerged territory extending approximately ten miles into the Gulf of Mexico. The last of these annexations covered •territory known as the Gulf of Mexico Tract No.…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Allen v. McCurrySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Montana v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois FoundationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical ExaminersSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Lawlor v. National Screen Service Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Wedtech Corp. v. Nofziger (In Re Wedtech Corp.)United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York · 1988
- Harvey & Harvey, Inc. v. Delaware Solid Waste AuthorityDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1985
- The Superior Oil Company v. The City of Port ArthurCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1984
- Kerns v. DukesDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1996
- Schiffahartsgesellschaft Leonhardt & Co. v. A. Bottacchi S.A. De NavegacionDistrict Court, S.D. Georgia · 1982
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