Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed on appeal a hunting club’s ownership of a tract of land in its entirety—including both surface and subsurface rights—over the objections of ...
In a closely watched opinion issued on May 16, 2025, the Texas Supreme Court in Myers-Woodward, LLC v. Undergrounds Services Markham, LLC, — S.W.3d —, No. 22-0878, 2025 WL 1415892 (Tex. May 16, 2025) ...
Absent an agreement otherwise, the Supreme Court of Texas has held that "the surface owner, and not the mineral lessee, owns the possessory rights to the space under the property's surface." This ...
The economic viability of extracting oil and natural gas from unconventional shale formations has resulted in a significant direct financial benefit to thousands of landowners in Pennsylvania. It has ...
The spectrum rights issue might better be understood by a thought experiment: Consider how efficiency and growth were promoted by the evolution of subsurface mineral property rights. Thomas W. Hazlett ...
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