Successful bidders, including Houston-based Schlumberger, in a 2007 auction of Bakken Shale oil and gas rights conducted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and related to tribal land, recently won in an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The law firm of Baker Botts represented the leaseholders in the appeal.
The appeal was brought by several Native American mineral owners in North Dakota who claimed that the United States had breached its fiduciary duty owed to Native Americans by approving the leases for the oil and gas development rights and that the defendant-appellee bidders aided, abetted and induced the U.S. to breach that duty.
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