United States Tenth Circuit

Plaintiff's suit, seeking unpaid royalties on oil and gas leases under the New Mexico Oil and Gas Proceeds Payment Act, is properly dismissed by the district court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/11/2005
• Published 05/11/2005

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, McKAY, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Condon (J.E. Gallegos, with him on the briefs), Gallegos Law Firm, P.C., Santa Fe, NM, for Intervenors and Intervenors-Appellants., Patricia A. Madrid, Attorney General, State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Attorney General for the State of New Mexico.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kerry C. Kiernan, Eaves, Bardacke, Baugh, Kierst & Larson, P.A., Albuquerque, NM (John M. Eaves, Paul Bardacke, Derek V. Larson, Eaves, Bardacke, Baugh, Kierst & Larson, P.A., Albuquerque, NM;  Mary E. Walta, White, Koch, Kelly & McCarthy, P.A., Santa Fe, NM;  William E. Snead, Law Offices of William E. Snead, P.C., Albuquerque, NM, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant and Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee., Scott S. Barker, Holland & Hart, LLP, Denver, CO (Marcy G. Glenn, Holland & Hart, LLP, Denver, CO;  Arnold R. Thomas, Holland & Hart, LLP, Greenwood Village, CO, with him on the briefs), for Defendant-Appellees., Michael B. Campbell, Michael H. Feldewert, Tanya M. Trujillo, Holland & Hart, LLP, Santa Fe, NM, on the briefs for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee.