ANR Pipeline Co. v. Lafaver

EBEL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the efforts of two natural gas pipelines, in the face of burgeoning economic competition in the deregulated energy industry, to deal with what they regard as the unequal property tax system in Kansas vis:a-vis the pipelines’ traditional competitors, railroad companies, as well as the pipelines’ claims of unfair judicial process in the state courts of Kansas. We must dismiss this appeal, vacate the district court’s judgment, and direct the district court to dismiss all claims in this case against both the state agency defendants and the state official…