Pennsylvania’s highest court recently refused to expand the equitable doctrine of abandonment to terminate an oil and gas lease. In SLT Holdings, LLC v. Mitch-Well Energy, Inc., 249 A.3d 888 (Pa. [...]
In Briggs v. Southwestern Energy Production Company, 224 A.3d 334 (Pa. 2020), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court considered whether the rule of capture immunizes an energy developer from liability in [...]
The Superior Court issued a non-precedential opinion reinforcing the importance of examining the chain of title prior to sale. In McDonald v. CNX Gas Co., LLC, 240 A.3d 917 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2020), [...]
In Anadarko Petroleum Corp. v. Commw. of Pa, the Commonwealth brought an action against mineral lessees for alleged violations of the Pennsylvania Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection [...]
A dispute between the Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, and various trusts arose over the surface and the subsurface rights for numerous tracts of land in Sullivan and Bradford [...]
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