Legal Opinion
Superior Oil Co. v. City of Port Arthur, Tex.
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided September 22, 1982No. Civ. A. B-80-459-CAPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED MEMORANDUM OPINION
ROBERT M. PARKER, District Judge.
On February 17,1982, this Court entered an Opinion and Order staying this cause until the termination of a parallel proceeding between the same parties in the state courts of Texas. Superior Oil Co. v. City of Port Arthur, 535 F.Supp. 916 (E.D.Tex. 1982). Although the Court indicated that it was prepared to find that Port Arthur’s annexation of Superior Oil’s offshore drilling platform and leasehold constituted a taking of property without due process of law in violation of the fourteenth amendment, the Court was of the opinion that…
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