Legal Opinion
A. T. Barrett, Jr. v. Atlantic Richfield Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 17, 1971No. 29795_1PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
The appellant, A. T. Barrett, Jr., asks this Court to reverse an order of the district court dismissing his complaint and to direct the court to convene a three-judge court to hear his constitutional attack upon the system devised by the State of Texas for awarding development rights to the sulphur underlying its public school lands. We have concluded that the district court should not have reached a decision on the merits, but rather should have abstained. Therefore we reverse the judgment of the district court and remand the case with instructions to dismiss Barrett’s…
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