United States Tenth Circuit

In an action against defendant alleging fraud, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty with respect to various oil and gas investments defendant made on plaintiff's behalf, grant of a preliminary injunction seeking record title to the various oil and gas investments is affirmed where the magistrate judge did not err in weighing the factors for such relief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/20/2009
• Published 01/22/2009

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, BALDOCK, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stanley Arkin (Michelle A. Rice, Sean R. O'Brien and Justin M. Sher of Arkin, Kaplan, Rice, L.L.P., New York, NY, and Curtis M. Long and Steven J. Adams of Fellers, Snider, Blakenship, Bailey & Tippens, P.C., Tulsa, OK, on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellants and Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellants., Oliver S. Howard (M. Benjamin Singletary, Joseph W. Morris and Richard B. Noulles of Gable Gotwals, with him on the briefs), Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees.