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Helping Clients With Their Energy and Environmental Needs

In a significant decision released on December 29, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ohio rejected the doctrine that the state’s courts...


Tags: Environmental, Oil and Gas, Chevron Deference

On September 23, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that fact issues prevented a lower court from granting summary judgment to...


Tags: Injection, Ohio, UIC, Oil and Gas,

The Supreme Court of Ohio accepted a case involving the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act (ODMA), Fonzi v. Brown, but held the case until...


Tags: DMA, Oil and Gas, Energy, ODMA

On May 21, 2020, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for a lessee in an oil and gas lease dispute, finding that the lessee...


Tags: Post-Production Costs, Royalties, Oil and Gas, Energy

On January 22, 2020, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided Briggs v. Southwestern Energy Prod. Co.  The issue before the Court...


Tags: Rule of Capture, Marcellus Shale, Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil and Gas,

On November 26, 2019, the Supreme Court of Ohio clarified that a declaratory judgment claim that an oil and gas lease terminated...


Tags: Ohio, Oil and Gas, Energy

In July, we wrote about Gerrity v. Chervenak (5th Dist., Guernsey County), involving the level of due diligence that the Ohio...


Tags: Ohio, Oil and Gas, Energy, Utica,

The Marcellus and Utica Shales contain around 214 tcf of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas, according to a new...


Tags: Marcellus, Oil and Gas, Energy, Utica

On June 19, 2019, Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals decided a case involving the interplay of a private oil and gas lease...


Tags: Unitization, Ohio, Oil and Gas, Energy

Four years after the Supreme Court of Ohio struck down the City of Munroe Falls’ attempt to regulate oil and gas development...


Tags: Zoning, Oil and Gas, Energy

Helping clients with their energy and environmental needs

You can expect to find news and breaking legal developments involving the crude oil and natural gas industries, alternative and renewable energy resources, and the latest environmental issues.