Meghani v. Shell Oil Co.

AMENDED MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ATLAS, District Judge.

Pending before the Court in this gasoline dealer franchise dispute is the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs’ Petroleum Marketing Practices Act Claim (“Defendants’ Motion”) [Doc. # 10]. 1 Plaintiffs are former and current owners of Shell gas station franchises. 2 Plaintiffs have responded in opposition. 3 The Court has considered all matters of record and the applicable authorities, and concludes that Defendants’ Motion should be granted. 4

I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND

In mid-1999, Plaintiffs owned and operated twenty-nine Shell-brand gasoline…