Legal Opinion
C. W. Brennan v. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1967No. 8722_1PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PICKETT, Circuit Judge.
The appellant Brennan owns 160 acres of land in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, which, after having been classified as a valuable source of petroleum and nitrogen, was in 1917 patented to George H. Baxter, reserving to the United States “all the nitrate, oil, and gas in the lands”, as required by 30 U.S.C. §§ 121-123. 1 In 1963 Brennan, together with Humble Oil and Refining Company, holder of an option to purchase the land, petitioned the Director of the Bureau of Land Management for a decision that oil shale was not included in the reservation. The Director, with the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Udall v. TallmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Unemployment Compensation Comm'n of Alaska v. AragonSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Boesche v. UdallSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Ard v. BrandonSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Alfred Coleman and Edward J. McClennan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Califano v. SandersSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Richard Pickus v. United States Board of ParoleCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1974
- State of Washington v. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the InteriorCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1969
- State Highway Commission of Missouri v. VolpeCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1973
- Joe Aulston and Lola Aulston v. United States of America, and Shell Western E & P, Intervenors-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1990
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