5th Circuit:  Fracking Sand Contract Dispute Belongs In Northern Ireland

(June 4, 2020, 8:07 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 26 affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a dispute between a hydraulic fracturing sand operator and a company that agreed to build a fracking sand processing plant should be litigated in Northern Ireland pursuant to terms of the contract (Sierra Frac Sand LLC v. CDE Global Limited. No. 19-40489, 5th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 16694)....