United States Ninth Circuit

In a challenge to the Bureau of Land Management's decision determining that certain oil and gas leases eliminated from a contracted unit were ineligible for extensions either because they had already received two successive extensions or because a second extension would not be successive to the first, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where the procedures for periodic revision of units in the 1988 Amendments to the Geothermal Steam Act did not apply to pre-amendment contract provisions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/27/2010
• Published 07/27/2010

Judges

• Sidney R. Thomas

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John L. Clark, Gregory A. Brower