United States Fifth Circuit

In an action by an owner of Louisiana land, over which the U.S. acquired an easement for pipelines, seeking to enjoin commercial use by a company who leased the pipeline from the U.S., the commercial use was not outside the interest in land held by the U.S. under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/07/2002
• Published 05/07/2002

Judges

• REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, Chief Judge, and REAVLEY and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick W. Pendley (argued), Pendley Law Firm, Plaquemine, LA, David M. Ellison, Jr. (argued), Ellison & Ellison, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Cheryl M. Kornick, John M. Wilson, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Shell Pipeline Co. and Equilon Pipeline Co., David Jack Lazerwitz (argued), David C. Shilton, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for U.S.