Pan American Petroleum Corp. v. El Paso Natural Gas Co.

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• holding that an action for declaratory judgment is not barred because the plaintiff failed to exhaust administrative remedies if the question is one of law and not fact
• holding that an action for declaratory judgment is not barred because the plaintiff failed to exhaust administrative remedies if the question is one of law and not fact
• holding that an action for declaratory judgment is not barred because the plaintiff failed to exhaust administrative remedies if the question is one of law and not fact
• holding that an action for declaratory judgment is not barred because the plaintiff failed to exhaust administrative remedies if the question is one of law and not fact
• stating that “the exhaustion doctrine ... applies where an administrative agency alone has authority to pass on every question raised” but not to a question of law
• interpreting a statutory provision granting further relief as typically allowing for a coercive decree to carry into effect the requested declaratory judgment

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