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On January 22, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held that lawsuits challenging the joint EPA-Army Corps rule defining “waters of the...
Tags: WOTUS, Clean Water Act, Energy, Environment
In a January 3, 2018 decision, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that Ohio does not recognize an implied covenant to explore further...
Tags: Ohio, "oil and gas" Utica Shale, Energy
Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection halted construction of Sunoco Logistic LP's Mariner East II...
Tags: Pipeline, PA, Oil and Gas, Energy
In Talbot v. Ward (2017-Ohio-9213), Ohio's Seventh District Court of Appeals found the Duhig rule “persuasive” in interpreting a...
Tags: 'Utica Shale', Duhig rule, Ohio, Oil and Gas,
Over the last several weeks, Ohio courts issued a few decisions involving oil and gas issues that we wanted to briefly mention:
Tags: Ohio, Leases, Oil and Gas, Energy,
Last week, the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Eclipse Res.—Ohio, LLC v. Madzia, concerning a...
Tags: Lease, Ohio, Oil and Gas, Energy,
In March, we posted about Dundics v. Eric Petroleum Corp., a decision by Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals ruling that...
Tags: landmen, Ohio, Oil and Gas, Energy,
In a decision released yesterday, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio concluded that Ohio would...
Tags: 'Utica Shale', Post-Production Costs, Ohio, Oil and Gas,
In Sheba v. Kautz, 2017-Ohio-7699, Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals held that a deed executed in 1848 reserving “all of...
Tags: 7th District, Ohio, Deed Interpretation, Minerals,
Last year, we posted about litigation concerning the Bureau of Land Management’s controversial rule purporting to regulate...
Tags: Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil and Gas, BLM, Energy
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