District Court, W.D. Louisiana July 1, 1985, Civ. A. No. 85-1318 "L" (Wooten v. USA, Ex Rel. Department of the Interior)

MEMORANDUM RULING

DUHE, District Judge.

The trustee in this matter, Charles N. Wooten, Sr., seeks damages in excess of

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$18 million from the United States Department of the Interior (“DOI”) for alleged overcharges for federal royalty crude oil that the debtor, Evangeline Refining Company, purchased from the government from July 1974 through December 1982.