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Ohio’s Seventh District Court of Appeals recently interpreted two reservations of non-participating royalty interests (NPRIs)...


Tags: Deed Interpretation, Royalties, Royalty, NPRI

Recently, in Crum v. Mooney, 2023-Ohio-4451, Ohio’s Seventh Appellate District considered whether an 1898 assignment conveyed a...


Tags: "Oil and Gas Lease", Royalty

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently ruled that a certain group of landowners were not entitled to...


Tags: Tolling, Ohio, Statute of Limitation, Oil and Gas,

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,

West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Holds Certain Lessees May Deduct Post-Production Costs

On Friday, May 26, 2017, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals released its decision in Patrick D. Leggett, et al. v. EQT...


Tags: West Virginia, Oil and Gas, Energy, Royalty

The Houston Chronicle is reporting that landowner royalties in Pennsylvania alone could exceed $1 billion in 2012: "In...


Tags: Energy, Royalty

That's the question raised in this article by the WSJ: "As energy companies race to lock up every available oil-producing acre,...


Tags: Energy, Royalty

Building on the royalty-interest owners' success in Estate of Garrison G. Tawney v. Columbia Natural Resources, LLC (West...


Tags: Energy, Royalty

By Greg Russell On March 24, 2010

PA Royalty Decision

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently upheld the lower court's decision in Kilmer v. Elexco Land Services, Inc., Docket No....


Tags: Energy, Royalty

By Greg Russell On July 11, 2009

ND Royalty Opinion

The North Dakota Supreme Court held this week that deductions for natural gas processing of sour gas made by Petro-Hunt, LLC,...


Tags: Energy, Royalty

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