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191326P.pdf 07/27/2020 Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. v. EOG Resources, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-1326
U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Bismarck
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Quiet Title. Both parties lease oil and gas rights, and
Northern filed this quiet-title action in federal court to resolve their
competing interests in mineral rights in North Dakota; both parties'
lessors had litigated a similar suit regarding competing interests in
state court, and the district court found Northern was in privity with its
lessor and that the lessors' case barred Northern's quiet-title claims
under the doctrine res judicata; here, however, Northern acquired its
lease before the lessors' case, and no privity exists between Northern and
its lessor - see Gerrity Bakken, LLC v. Oasis Petroleum N. Am., LLC, 915
N.W.2d 677 (N.D. 2018); reversed and remanded for further proceedings.