Insight and Analysis of Legal Issues Impacting the Energy Industry
By Joe Giarrusso:
In Louisiana, a lawsuit is generally deemed abandoned when the parties fail to take any step in its prosecution for three years. This rule is operative without any formal order. La. Code Civ. P. art 561. However, Act 361 of 2007 extended the period for abandonment to five years where (1) the…
The Associated Press reported today that a federal jury found Kerr McGee liable for additional royalties on crude oil produced from federal properties and sold through Texon. The case is noteworthy in that it was brought as a False Claims Act case by Bobby Maxwell, an auditor with the Mineral Management Service, who alleged that…
