(October 17, 2023, 10:21 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana and energy companies have filed a brief in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that a lower court “acted well within its discretion” when it granted a preliminary injunction that prevented a federal agency from implementing changes to the process by which it conducted the competitive sealed-bid auction of offshore oil-and-gas leases known as Lease Sale 261....