United States Tenth Circuit

Former land owner's claims that a quiet title judgment in favor of the government should be set aside due to fraud, under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6), and because it is void, under Rule 60(b)(4), were denied, even though there was evidence of undisclosed oil and gas lease on the property at issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2002
• Published 03/08/2002

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, KELLY and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Marcella Burgess Giles, McLean, Virginia (Ernest C. Baynard, III, Washington, D.C., with her on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellants., Ellen J. Durkee, Attorney, Appellate Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney;  Linda A. Epperley, Assistant United States Attorney, Muskogee, OK;  John C. Cruden, Assistant Attorney General;  Jeffrey Dobbins, Attorney, Appellate Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., with her on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.