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In Senterra Ltd. v. Winland, 2019-Ohio-4387, Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals held that an examiner, after identifying...


Tags: Supreme Court of Ohio, Ohio Marketable Title Act, Root of Title

This past week, in EOG Resources, Inc. v. Lucky Land Management, LLC, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 8738, the U.S. Court of Appeals for...


Tags: Horizontal Wells, Surface Use, Sixth Circuit Court, Preliminary Injunction,

In Briggs v. Southwestern Energy Production Co. (Briggs II), the Middle District of Pennsylvania directed summary judgment to...


Tags: Pennsylvania oil and gas, Subsurface Mineral Trespass, Conversion

Yesterday, in Save Ohio Parks v. Oil & Gas Land Mgt. Comm., 2025-Ohio-847, Ohio’s Tenth District Court of Appeals held that R.C....


Tags: State Lands, Ohio Oil and Gas Commission, Oil & Gas Land Management Commission

USEPA Releases Draft General Permit for Industrial Stormwater Discharges

On Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed draft 2026 Multi-Sector General Permit...


Tags: Stormwater, Clean Water Act, Industrial

USFWS lists Monarch Butterfly as Threatened under Endangered Species Act

On December 12, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed listing the monarch butterfly as threatened under the...


Tags: USFWS, Endangered Species

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated four pipeline-safety standards promulgated by...


Tags: Pipeline Safety, Safety Standard, U.S. Court of Appeals

In EOG Resources, Inc. v. Lucky Land Mgmt., LLC,[1] the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted a stay of...


Tags: Reasonable Use of Surface, Preliminary Injunction, Severed Mineral Interest

Senate Bill 94, which promises to modernize (and standardize) how county records are preserved and made available to the public,...


Tags: Recorder, E-Recording

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