Magistrate Judge: Transfer Of Venue In Fracking Lease Dispute ‘Inappropriate’

Mealey's (September 5, 2018, 12:52 PM EDT) -- BOISE, Idaho — A federal magistrate judge in Idaho on Sept. 4 denied a motion filed by the federal government, hydraulic fracturing industry groups and the state of Wyoming, ruling that the challenges brought to federal fracking leases should not be severed and transferred to separate jurisdictions because it would be “inappropriate” (Western Watersheds Project, et al. v. Ryan K. Zinke, et al., No. 18-187, D. Idaho)....