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Parties Involved:
So-Lo Oil Company, Inc.
Appellant
Total Petroleum, Inc.,
Appellee

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

SO-LO OIL COMPANY, INC., 

Plaintiff-Appellant, 

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JUL O ~ 1992 

RQB"G'RT L. HOECKEE 

Clerk 

v. ) No. 89-6272 

TOTAL PETROLEUM, INC., 

Defendant-Appellee. 

) (D.C. No. CIV-88-2056-W) 

) (W.D. Okla.) 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

Before MOORE and BARRETT, Circuit Judges, and SPARR,** District 

Judge. 

**Honorable Daniel 

District Court for 

designation. 

B. Sparr, District Judge, 

the District of Colorado, 

United States 

sitting by 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App . P. 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1 . 9 . 

submitted without oral argument. 

The case is therefore ordered 

This court, pursuant to the provisions of Okla. Stat. tit. 

20, § 1602, certified to the Supreme Court of the State of 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circui t, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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Oklahoma the following question of Oklahoma law which we 

determined would control the outcome of this case: 

Do the provisions of the Oklahoma Unfair Sales Act, 

Okla. Stat. tit. 15, §§ 598.1-598.11, especially 

§ 598.3, apply to entities such as defendant, Total 

Petroleum, which not only produce and refine petroleum 

products, but also sell those products at retail 

directly to the general public in competition with 

distributors such as plaintiff, So-Lo Oil Company? 

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has now answered that question in 

the negative. See So-Lo Oil Co. v. Total Petroleum, Inc., No. 

76,856, 1992 WL 112165 (Okla. May 19, 1992). 

Upon consideration of the opinion of the Supreme Court of the 

State of Oklahoma, we AFFIRM the judgment of the United States 

District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. 

ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

PER CURIAM 

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