United States Fifth Circuit

The court is without jurisdiction based on the absence of an appealable order before it, where appellants lack standing to argue that demand letters provided sufficient notice on behalf of a putative class, and denial of class certification is not at issue. (Revised opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/17/2002
• Published 06/19/2002

Judges

• GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, DeMOSS and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John M. Wilson,Cheryl M. Kornick, Jonathan Andrew Hunter, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, for Chevron USA Inc., Joe B. Norman, Stevia M. Walther, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, Robert E. Plumb, Jr., Texaco Inc., Houston, TX, David R. Dugas, Caffery, Oubre, Campbell & Garrison, Lafayette, LA, for Texaco Inc. and Texaco Exploration and Production Inc., Endya E. Delpit, Entergy Services Inc., New Orleans, LA, for Texaco Exploration and Production Inc., Lawrence P. Simon, Jr. (argued), Charles B. Griffis, Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, LA, for Amerada Hess Corp., Union Oil Co. of California, Mobil Oil Corp., Mobil Oil Exploration and Producing Southeast Inc. and Exxonmobil Corp., Gerri Merritt Fore, Exxon Mobil Corp., Houston, TX, for Mobil Oil Corp., Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast Inc. and Exxonmobil Corp., William Seay Strain, Thomas Chalmers McKowen, IV, Strain, Dennis, Mayhall & Bates, Baton Rouge, LA, Barry L. Wertz, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Houston, TX, for Exxonmobil Corp., Bob F. Wright, Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, Lafayette, LA, Robert Karl Hammack, Michael Van Ardoin, Lafayette, LA, Charles Sterling Lambert, Jr. (argued), LeBlanc, Maples & Waddell, Jules B. LeBlanc, III, Baton Rouge, LA, William F. Large, Hosie, Frost, Large & McArthur, Anchorage, AK, John Burritt McArthur, Spencer Hosie, Hosie, Frost, Large & McArthur, San Francisco, CA, for School Board Vermilion Parish and Guidry., M. Hampton Carver, Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier, Finn, Blossman & Areaux, New Orleans, LA, for American Petroleum Institute, Amicus Curiae., Randall C. Songy, Aimee Lydie Williams, Onebane, Bernard, Torian, Diaz, McNamara & Abell, Lafayette, LA, for Louisiana Independent Oil and Gas Ass'n and Louisiana Div. of Mid-Continent Oile and Gas Ass'n, Amici Curiae.