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Supreme Court of Ohio Rules Youngstown Anti-Fracking Measure Must Be Placed on the May 2018 Ballot

The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled yesterday that the Mahoning County Board of Elections must place a proposed city charter...


Tags: 'Utica Shale', Hydraulic Fracturing, Ohio, Water,

On April 10th-11th, the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation (EMLF) will be hosting a Special Institute on Petrochemicals in...


Tags: EMLF, Events, Marcellus, Energy,

Today, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management invited comments on a draft rule...


Tags: Ohio, Oil and Gas, Energy, Utica

Recently, in Shilts v. Beardmore (2018-Ohio-863), the Seventh District Court of Appeals analyzed whether a surface owner complied...


Tags: 'Utica Shale', Ohio, "2006 DMA", Dormant Mineral Act,

On February 28, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio announced that it has accepted an appeal of Blackstone v. Moore (2017-Ohio-1639). 


Tags: OMTA, Ohio Marketable Title Act, Ohio, MTA,

On Friday, March 9, 2018, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed into law a state statute permitting the leasing of oil and...


Tags: Co-Tenancy and Modernization and Majority Protecti, West Virginia, Oil and Gas Leases, Oil and Gas,

Oil and Gas Title Washing Survives Another Judicial Challenge

In its February 2018 unpublished decision of Woodhouse Hunting Club, Inc. v. Hoyt, the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld yet...


Tags: Pennsylvania oil and gas, Energy, title washing

On January 30, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio rejected a constitutional challenge to a statutory unitization order issued by the...


Tags: Unitization, Ohio, Pooling, Oil and Gas,

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

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