Feb 1, 2020 | Drill Deeper Blog
In AWT Be Good LLC v. Chesapeake Louisiana, L.P., No. 16-1412, 2019 WL 2385199 (W.D. La. June 4, 2019), the Western District Court of Louisiana reaffirmed the longstanding principle under Mineral Code article 128 that an assignee or sublessee of a mineral lease is...Jul 17, 2018 | Drill Deeper Blog
The Fifth Circuit’s recent ruling in Fallon Family, L.P. v. Goodrich Petroleum Corp. reinforces that parties to mineral leases should be very careful when drafting documents to be recorded in public records. The case stems from a 1954 mineral lease between the Fallon...Mar 2, 2015 | Drill Deeper Blog
The Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal has recently issued two important decisions addressing whether certain mineral reservation language created a fixed term or instead simply restated the customary ten-year prescriptive period for these mineral rights. Both...