The U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Cert. Petition Involving Ohio's Dormant Mineral Act
By Christopher F. Swing on December 22, 2016
Lo and behold, in reviewing whether any of the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act cases decided by the Ohio Supreme Court in September 2016 were appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court we discovered, in fact, one was: Walker v. Shondrick-Nau, No. 16-776, 2016 WL 7336573 (U.S.) (Dec. 14, 2016)....
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Ohio Supreme Court Punts on Issue Affecting Many Ohio Oil and Gas Leases
on November 7, 2016
As I wrote last spring, the case of Lutz v. Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, Case No. 2015-0545, offered the Ohio Supreme Court the chance to significantly impact Ohio law on the calculation of oil and gas royalties. Parties seeking some clarity on that topic will be disappointed to learn that the Ohio Supreme Court chose not to decide the question presented, instead sending the question back to the federal courts....