Fracking Company Says Current Lease Appeal Should Not Be Assigned To Prior Panel

Mealey's (December 19, 2022, 2:20 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A hydraulic fracturing company engaged in a federal lease dispute with the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) filed a brief in the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, arguing that it should deny a motion by an intervenor Native American group seeking to have the appeal assigned to the same panel that heard a prior, related appeal.  The fracking operator says that while the attempt is “an understandable litigation tactic,” it is still “inappropriate.”...