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
In another installment of AWMS Water Sols., LLC v. Mertz, the Eleventh Appellate District issued a decision earlier this month...
Tags: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Injection Well, Suspension Order
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
The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that “[w]hen the SEC seeks civil penalties against a defendant for securities fraud, the...
Tags: SEC, U.S. Supreme Court, Security Fraud
Ohio’s Tenth District Court of Appeals recently addressed whether a trial court abused its discretion by refusing to admit...
Tags: Injection Well, Ohio Oil and Gas Commission, Appeal of Chief's Order
On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States issued alandmark decisioninLoper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo...
Tags: SCOTUS, USEPA, U.S. Supreme Court
On June 27, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a final decision in Ohio v. EPA and granted the stay of a USEPA plan designed to...
Tags: Clean Air Act, Ohio, EPA, U.S. Supreme Court
Last week, in Cardinal Minerals, LLC v. Miller, 2024-Ohio-2133, Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals held that the appellant,...
Tags: DMA, Champerty and Maintenance, Affidavit of Abandonment, Mineral Buyer