No. 18-1278

Corey A. Kerns, et al. v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., et al.

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-04-08
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: 42-usc-1983 due-process due-process-clause horizontal-drilling mineral-extraction mineral-rights permanent-physical-invasion property-rights regulatory-police-power state-action state-regulatory-police-power state-regulatory-power subsurface-rights takings-clause
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw SocialSecurity DueProcess Takings FifthAmendment Privacy
Latest Conference: 2019-05-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether state regulatory police power statute allowing permanent physical invasion of private subsurface for oil/gas extraction violates due process and takings clause

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED STATE REGULATORY POLICE POWER 1. Whether the Due Process and Takings Clauses are violated when a state official utilizes a state regulatory police power statute to grant a private entity the rights to permanently physically invade the subsurface of private land by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, and to extract the oil, gas, and natural gas liquids from beneath the land; and STATE ACTION UNDER COLOR OF LAW-SECTION 1983 2. Whether a private entity who, pursuant to a state regulatory police power statute, applied for and received from a state official the rights to permanently physically invade the subsurface of private land by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, and to extract the oil, gas, and natural gas liquids from beneath the land pursuant to a statutory scheme that is defective under the Due Process and Takings Clauses, acted as a state actor under color of law in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

Docket Entries

2019-05-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2019.
2019-04-09
Waiver of right of respondent Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. to respond filed.
2019-04-08
Waiver of right of respondents Richard J. Simmers, Chief, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management to respond filed.
2019-04-03
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 8, 2019)

Attorneys

Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C.
Daniel Edgar ShueyVorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Respondent
Daniel Edgar ShueyVorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, Respondent
Corey A. Kerns, et al.
Phillip Joseph CampanellaPhillip J Campanella, Petitioner
Phillip Joseph CampanellaPhillip J Campanella, Petitioner
Richard J. Simmers, Chief, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management
Benjamin Michael FlowersOhio Attorney General Dave Yost, Respondent
Benjamin Michael FlowersOhio Attorney General Dave Yost, Respondent