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In United States v. Leiter Minerals, Inc., 381 U.S. 413, 85 S.Ct. 1575, 14 L.Ed.2d 692 (1965), the case was dismissed as moot eight years after abstention was ordered.
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No. 950.
Together with No. 951, California Co. et al. v. Leiter Minerals, Inc., et al., also on petition for writ of certiorari to the same court.
Certiorari granted, judgment vacated and cases remanded to District Court with directions to dismiss the complaint as moot.
Reported below: 329 F.2d 85.
Solicitor General Cox and Roger P. Marquis for the United States.
Francis R. Kirkham, Turner H. McBaine, Eugene D. Saunders and Charles D. Marshall for petitioners in No. 951.
Saul Stone and E. Drew McKinnis for Buras et al.
The motion of Alma Buras et al. to be added as parties respondent is granted.
Upon consideration of the joint suggestion of mootness, the petitions for writs of certiorari are granted and the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is vacated. The cases are remanded to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana with directions to dismiss the complaint as moot.