(March 20, 2024, 1:12 PM EDT) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge on Ohio has denied a drilling company’s partial motion to dismiss a drilling rights case, ruling that the plaintiff, a corporation that owns mineral interests in the Point Pleasant Shale formation, has sufficiently pleaded trespass and other causes of action for the drilling company’s intrusion into formations that are beyond the boundaries of its leases in the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale formations....