On March 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ohio once again addressed the level of diligence a surface owner must exercise in...
Tags: DMA, Due Diligence, ODMA
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 January 21, 2020, the Supreme Court of Ohio accepted an appeal from the Seventh District Court of Appeals’ decision in West v....
Tags: OMTA, Dormant Mineral Act, DMA, Marketable Title Act,
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 Fifth Appellate District recently addressed whether an internet search to identify / locate the holders of severed mineral...
Tags: Ohio, DMA, Oil and Gas, Energy,
Ohio's Seventh District Court of Appeals recently held once again that fee oil and gas interests are subject to possible...
Tags: OMTA, Ohio Marketable Title Act, Ohio, Dormant Mineral Act,
On December 13, 2018, the Supreme Court of Ohio clarified the preservation of interests under the Ohio Marketable Title Act...
Tags: OMTA, 'Utica Shale', Ohio Marketable Title Act, Oil and Gas,
Earlier this week, Ohio's 7th District Court of Appeals again addressed the amount of diligence required to identify the holders...
Tags: 'Utica Shale', Ohio Dormant Mineral Act, Ohio, "2006 DMA",
On September 15, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued a number of decisions concerning the application of the Ohio Dormant...
On April 8, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio accepted review of Taylor v. Crosby, a case involving the 1989 version of the Ohio...