United States Fifth Circuit

In a case involving the performance of obligations under right of first refusal (ROFR) clauses in joint operating agreements to which defendant-Texaco and plaintiffs were parties, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where defendant failed to prove that there was no genuine issue as to any material fact or that it was entitled to a judgment as a matter of law regarding whether it performed its obligations in good faith as required by the clauses.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2006
• Published 08/31/2006

Judges

• DENNIS, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, BARKSDALE and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph R. Ward, Jr. (argued), Ward & Condrey, Covington, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Loulan Joseph Pitre, Jr. (argued), Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, LA, B.J. Duplantis, Samuel Edgar Masur, Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.