Legal Opinion
Wallis v. Pan American Petroleum Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 25, 1966No. 341PublishedCited by 305 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This case presents a question concerning “federal common law" best explained after a summary of the facts and the legal proceedings involved.
At stake in the litigation are rights in several tracts, aggregating 827 acres, of oil-rich “mud lumps” or islands owned by the United States and located in a mouth of the Mississippi River near Burrwood, Louisiana. In 1954 petitioner, Floyd Wallis, filed with the Secretary of the Interior applications for a lease to exploit oil and gas deposits in the tracts. Because the tracts were deemed by Wallis to be “acquired lands” of the United States rather…
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