Loftin & Woodard, Inc. v. United States

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1978-08-09

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LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge: In these conversion actions, consolidated on appeal, the federal court is asked for a decision we consider impossible. The immediate question is whether the district court erred in granting appellee’s motion for summary judgment. The district court determined that it should refrain from deciding the issue on the merits, the rights to oil extracted from the Persian Gulf, because the decision…

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