Fracking Companies, As Amici, Say Royalty Interests Not Extinguished By Ohio Law

(May 11, 2020, 8:21 AM EDT) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — A hydraulic fracturing company on April 23 filed an amicus curiae brief in the Ohio Supreme Court in support of mineral lease holders who contend that a lower court correctly held that their royalty interests had not been extinguished by Ohio’s governing law with regard to the abandonment of mineral interests (Wayne L. West, et al. v. C.J. Bode, et al., No. 2019-1494, Ohio Sup.)....