Legal Opinion
In Re the Department of Energy Stripper Well Exemption Litigation
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided January 25, 1984No. MDL 378PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER OF REFERRAL FOR FACT FINDING TO ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY
THEIS, District Judge.
Like flies to honey, claimants are quickly drawn by a fund containing over one billion dollars. These claimants have radically differing notions as to how the fund should be distributed, with one factor common to all suggested approaches: each claimant, unsurprisingly, desires a methodology of distribution likely to result in a large percentage of the fund being deposited into said claimant’s pockets. Now before the Court is a motion to refer the question of fund distribution to the Department of…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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3Cited by37 opinions
- United States v. Exxon Corp.Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals · 1985
- Citronelle-Mobile Gathering, Inc. v. HerringtonTemporary Emergency Court of Appeals · 1987
- In Re Department of Energy Stripper Well Exemption LitigationDistrict Court, D. Kansas · 1986
- Exxon Corp. v. United States Department of EnergyTemporary Emergency Court of Appeals · 1984
- Mid-America Dairymen, Inc. v. HerringtonTemporary Emergency Court of Appeals · 1989
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