Legal Opinion
Norman E. Sondrol Marlene J. Sondrol v. Placid Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 1, 1994No. 93-1733PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
This diversity case arises from the natural gas industry’s stunning miscalculation of the effects of federal deregulation of natural gas producers. See Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, 15 U.S.C. §§ 3301-3432. The battlefield is the one we surveyed in Koch Hydrocarbon Co. v. MDU Resources Group, 988 F.2d 1529 (8th Cir.1993). The combatants here are natural gas producers wounded by the downstream struggles described in our opinion in Koch.
Defendant Placid Oil Company (“Placid”) operated the Eide # 35-11 gas well on North Dakota land leased in part from plaintiffs Norman- and…
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