In WMH Farms v. Apache Corporation the Third Circuit Court of Appeal reversed summary judgment in favor of plaintiff/landowner WMH against lessee JP Oil and dismissed JP’s third-party demand against Walter Oil and Gas…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Real Estate - Commercial, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Another dispute is resolved according to the provisions in a Master Service Agreement.
Have you reviewed yours lately? Jones was employed by Murphrey Oil Company…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In Zarvona Energy v. Black Stone Minerals Company, a Texas Court of Appeals reiterated that the cessation-of-production clause in an oil and gas lease cannot be read in absolute terms as a lessor might want it to be. The Court…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities
The construction industry is once again facing a familiar challenge. Specifically, geopolitical conflicts translating directly into higher project costs, price volatility, and contractual disputes. The ongoing war involving Iran…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade, Maritime Law
After reading Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. v. Oliver if you’ recall a similar post-production cost dispute, it was last week. And the result was the same. Royalties under this lease are to be calculated at the wellhead…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Real Estate - Commercial
You might know Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, for ’60’s political boss-segregationist Leander Perez. or maybe for its role in launching Huey Long’s political career after the New Orleans city fathers blew a hole in the levee in…
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/ Civil Procedure, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
In Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd. v. Puig the Supreme Court of Texas resolved whether a deed conveying a non-participating royalty interest “free of costs forever” relieved the royalty owners from bearing postproduction costs for…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Real Estate - Commercial
Way back in 2023 it was predicted that the Supreme Court of Texas’ decision in Van Dyke v. Navigator would spawn years of litigation. How right the predictions were!…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Real Estate - Commercial
Fallout from Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump.
Companies now have a clearer path to seek refunds following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision invalidating more than $170 billion in tariffs assessed under the…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade
Davis v. Aethon Energy Operating LLC is more for lawyers than business people but it is worth noting. A Texas court of appeals affirmed a take-nothing judgment against lessors who sued over the lessee’s failure to provide…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities
A strict two-year deadline to file a refund lawsuit is approaching for denied Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) claims, and taxpayers facing recapture on previously issued ERC claims have limited windows to challenge Internal…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
Robert May et al v. Ineos USA Oil & Gas, LLC et al, could, if you are so inclined, serve as a tutorial on terms used in oil and gas transactions or, if you are further along than that, it could be your guide for negotiating and…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Real Estate - Commercial
Texas has quickly become one of the nation's most prominent data center markets. A recent report by real estate firm JLL predicts that Texas could have the most data centers worldwide by 2030. In brief, data centers are…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Science, Computers, & Technology, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
“Gambit”: A calculated move, a stratagem. An example might be to buy a mineral interest with a long and complicated title history from the incarcerated son of a deceased parent and to bet on a court favoring your…
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/ Civil Procedure, Energy & Utilities, Family Law, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
Moore et al v. 1789 Minerals Fund I, LP, et al is another Texas decision addressing the effect of a Sheriff’s Deed after a tax foreclosure. Was the deed void for want of a sufficient property description? No, but the trial court…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Real Estate - Commercial, Taxation
