United States Fifth Circuit
State of Louisiana v. Union Oil Co. of California, 05-30488, 05-30489, 05-30492, 05-30493
Denial of a motion to remand following removal of a state court action alleging breach of contract, negligence, strict liability and trespass arising out of oil and gas exploration activities is reversed where the state was a real party in interest in the suit, the presence of which defeated diversity.
Appellate Information
- Decided 07/25/2006
- Published 07/26/2006
Judges
- PRADO, Circuit Judge:, Before DeMOSS, BENAVIDES and PRADO, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Fifth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Victor L. Marcello (argued), Talbot, Carmouche & Marcello, Gonzales, LA, Grady J. Abraham, Koury & Abraham, Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Benjamin Roth Grau, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, Dallas, TX, Charles R. Talley, Jamie Domilise Henry, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA, for Azimuth Energy LLC, Amicus Curiae., Robert Beattie McNeal (argued), Mark LeRay McNamara (argued), Natalie Renee Bolling, Frilot, Partridge, Kohnke & Clements, New Orleans, LA, for ExxonMobil Corp., Jamie Duayne Rhymes, Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, LA, for Beta Operating Co. LLC., Paul J. Hebert (argued), Mark DeWitt Sikes, Ottinger Hebert, Lafayette, LA, for Hilcorp Energy Co., Thomas M. McNamara, Jessica Gray McNamara, Lafayette, LA, for Shell Oil Co. and SWEPI LP.
- For Appellees:
- G. William Jarman, Alan James Berteau, Charles Simon McCowan, III, Louis Victor Gregoire, Jr., Kimberly Kaye Hymel, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, LA, Gilbert Stephen Keteltas, Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.