(May 8, 2017, 11:31 AM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on April 28 affirmed a lower court’s ruling that upheld a split decision by an arbitration panel and awarded a landowner $15.5 million for in damages, plus attorney fees, in a land dispute over gas rights and the responsibility for remediation contamination. The Supreme Court held that the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) did not have exclusive jurisdiction in the case, as had been argued by a hydraulic fracturing company (Forest Oil Corporation v. El Rucio Land & Cattle Company Inc., et al., No. 14-0979, Texas Sup.)....