Mealey's (January 10, 2022, 1:55 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana, along with 12 other states, on Jan. 6 filed a brief in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals contending that President Joseph R. Biden Jr. violated federal laws when he issued an executive order halting federal hydraulic fracturing lease sales, which the states say deprived them of revenue to which they are “statutorily entitled.”...