Opinion ID: 2612450
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: federal certified question

Text: The Honorable Bobby R. Baldock, Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, has Certified a Question of Law Pursuant to the Oklahoma Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 O.S. 1981, §§ 1601-1612, as follows: Does the district court have subject matter jurisdiction to hear and decide an action for damages brought by mineral interest owners against the owner and operator of an oil and gas lease when the mineral interest owners allege: (1) breach of contract by the operator for causing drainage of the oil and gas under their property by another oil and gas well on adjacent property also operated by the operator; (2) violation of fiduciary duties by the operator for failing to protect their correlative rights; and (3) misrepresentations by the operator to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission during a hearing on the application of the mineral interest owners to restrict the allowable production from the other oil and gas well? QUESTION ANSWERED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE FOR PARTS 1 and 2, IN THE NEGATIVE FOR PART 3.