Legal Opinion
Optima Oil & Gas Co. v. Mewbourne Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 23, 2012No. 11-6230UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND JUDGMENT *
TIMOTHY M. TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
Optima Oil & Gas Company, LLC, appeals from the district court’s order granting Mewbourne Oil Company’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we affirm.
BACKGROUND
Optima owned 85% of the oil and gas leasehold rights in certain property in Ellis County, Oklahoma (the Unit). 1 Mewb-ourne owned the remaining 15%. In 2006, Optima informed Mewbourne that it intended to be the operator of the Unit and that it was taking steps toward development of the Unit. Nonetheless,…
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