Trust:  U.S. Supreme Court Should Hear Pennsylvania Mineral Rights Case

(March 5, 2021, 9:19 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A family trust on Feb. 17 filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that a Pennsylvania state court violated the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution when it ruled that a 1908 tax sale extinguished the trust’s subsurface rights to oil and gas deposits, which the state then sold to a hydraulic fracturing company....