Did Moses worry about the mineral rights when he parted the Red Sea? Maybe Charlton Heston knows. What we know is that 3,500 years later if you plan to partition surface rights, the time to pay attention to the minerals is now.
In Hosek v. Scott, the parties had a deed partitioning the surface
Co-author Alexandria Moore
If you want to get to the meaning of a case, one exercise is to put yourself in the shoes of one participant or the other and see how you react to the events. (This also works well with Bible stories, by the way.) Last week we discussed Huff Energy fund LP
Co-author Alexandria Moore
Let’s say two fellows are in the oil business and one of his activities is as a director of an exploration company. A deal comes in, they present it to the company, but take it for themselves, Did they steal the opportunity from the company? In Huff Energy Fund LP v. Longview
How is that, you say?
More on the Les mess:
Truthiness: A quality characterizing a “truth” that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively, “from the gut” or because it “feels right” without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination or facts.
Today we explore truthiness in action. Let’s start with the loftiest bully pulpit in the land. The Washington Post gave
Creativity abounds: Your 16-year old “explaining” the empty Southern Comfort bottle and the roach clip; President Obama justifying his rejection of Keystone. The Louisiana Supreme Court isn’t much of a supporter, at least in statutory construction. Today we revisit McCarthy v. Evolution Petroleum Corp. As
Are you an operator who hires contractors on location, … a contractor who hires subcontractors, … the party to be indemnified for injuries to the other party’s employees? This post is for you.
Salas v. Allen Keller Company One, LLC, is not about master service agreements, but it is instructive. Want to avoid responsibility for
You might recall previous entries discussing Parr v. Aruba (here is one) – a suit for personal injuries from oilfield pollution (and a $2.9MM verdict for the plaintiffs). Not all similar suits have the same result.
You could liken Cerny v. Marathon Oil and Plains Exploration & Production to a game of legal
What should we make of the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s order sending a suit alleging injuries from an earthquake back to the trial court? Did the court unleash the lions, tigers and bears of the litigation world … or not? At this point, the answer is, not much for an injection well operator to worry about
Spoiler alert: Don’t expect a post about a weekend of Mardi Gras debauchery.
The owner of a landlocked tract can demand a right of passage over his neighbor’s property to the nearest public road. Does the law require the passage to be on the shortest route? No, says Phillips Energy Partners, LLC