Trigger warning for Texas readers: This entry will discuss forced pooling.

This post is a summary of a more detailed Client Alert prepared by Gray Reed's labor and employment practice group.

After a trial court order, two appellate opinions, a dissent, and another appellate opinion, the tension between a well operator and an adjacent mineral owner over whether hydraulic fracturing can constitute a subsurface trespass ...

In BP America v. Laddex, Ltd. the Texas Supreme Court affirmed that in a lease termination case the trial court cannot limit the jury's consideration of production in paying quantities to an arbitrary time period.

After four stops at the lower courts, Kenneth Hahn v. ConocoPhillips has been resolved by the Supreme Court of Texas.

In legal parlance, it was a "remand", but the result in Energy Transfer, LP et al v. Culberson Midstream LLC et al was the same.

Litigation practice tip before we dive into Right-Way Sand Co. v. South Texas Pipelines LLC (STX). Waiting 27 months after being sued and after the offending activity...

Frontier Drilling, LLC v. XTO Energy, Inc. has the indicia of an inequitable result, but as I remind my wife every time she objects to what she deems...

Almost from its inception, the IRS and employers have experienced headaches from the employee retention credit (ERC).

Broad form indemnities are common in Texas construction contracts, even though indemnifying someone for their own negligence is a tough pill to swallow.

Should the sufficiency of reworking operations under the cessation-of-production clause of an oil and gas lease be limited to the producing well?

Married taxpayers can file their taxes together or separately. Because it is often more tax-advantageous and convenient to file together, most married individuals elect to file as married filing jointly.

On June 20, 2024, the Supreme Court released its opinion in Moore et ux v. US, authored by Kavanaugh, decided by 6-3 vote and marking a rare instance for the Court to interpret the 16th Amendment...

Married taxpayers can file their taxes together or separately. Because it is often more tax-advantageous and convenient to file together, most married individuals elect to file as married filing jointly.

An old German proverb states that "to change and to change for the better are two different things." As 2024 ends, the legal and business communities who must navigate government scrutiny...

The U.S. tax system requires taxpayers to report their income and expenses on an annual accounting basis (e.g., a calendar year). Because taxpayers may have profits in some years...

The Delaware Chancery Court in The Anschutz Corporation et. al. v. Brown Robin Capital, LLC[1] ruled against dismissing several of Buyer's claims

Here is news and opinions about climate change that counters climate-alarm truthiness from emanating from some quarters. These facts and opinions are being said by those who know what they are talking about.

The real takeaway from Pruett v. River Land Holdings LLC is the reminder that the Texas Railroad Commission cannot adjudicate questions of title.

In Occidental Permian, Ltd. et al v. Citation 2002 Investment LLC the Supreme Court construed a 1987 assignment from Shell Western E& P Inc. to Citation of a large number of properties.