**All-Tex demands $26 million from **Sunquest Development, Plutus Alternative Strategies, Pinnacle Properties, Roth Properties and a dozen other defendants, claiming they ran a real-estate based Ponzi scheme, in Los Angeles Superior Court. **Hillwood International Energy, HKN Energy and others cheated **Prime Natural Resources of its half share in an oil deal in the Kurdish section of northern Iraq, Prime claims in Harris County Court, Houston. Co-plaintiffs **Hawler Energy and **Sarsank Production Co. also sue **Alliance ** Energy, Arthur Smith and **Shelby Bush. ****
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