Judge Says Landowners’ Appeal Lacks Merit In Dispute Over Mineral, Surface Rights

(June 6, 2024, 8:37 AM EDT) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge in Ohio has refused to stay a preliminary injunction in a mineral rights dispute, ruling that a land management company does not have a strong likelihood of success on the merits of its appeal of a district court’s ruling that a hydraulic fracturing company’s proposed use of surface land gives due regard to the land management company’s use of the surface land....