mineral-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A635 Liberty Petroleum Corporation v. North Dakota Industrial Commission, et al. North Dakota 2024-12-27 Presumed Complete economic-regulation forced-pooling just-compensation mineral-rights property-transfer takings-clause Whether a state's regulatory 'forced pooling' regime that allows involuntary transfer of mineral rights and oil production without full compensation c…
20-885 Next Energy, LLC v. Illinois Department of Natural Resources Illinois 2021-01-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fifth-amendment hydraulic-fracturing mineral-rights oil-and-gas permit-moratorium property-rights regulatory-taking regulatory-takings shale-oil shale-oil-leases takings Whether an unauthorized moratorium on permits needed to drill wells, together with onerous regulations and procedures that exceeded the term of the le…
20-441 Minnesota Sands, LLC v. County of Winona, Minnesota Minnesota 2020-10-06 Denied commerce-clause discrimination interstate-commerce mineral-rights mining permitting-requirements property-interest property-rights state-regulation takings-clause Does a state or local government impermissibly discriminate against interstate commerce when it allows a mineral to be mined for all uses that are com…
20-265 Leon Oscar Ramirez, Jr., et al. v. ConocoPhillips Company, et al. Texas 2020-09-02 Denied Response Waived common-law constitutional-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mineral-rights property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit common law courts from eliminating property ownership by changing or disregarding their common la…
18-1278 Corey A. Kerns, et al. v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-08 Denied Response Waived 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 Whether state regulatory police power statute allowing permanent physical invasion of private subsurface for oil/gas extraction violates due process a…
18-5069 William M. Uschock v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation mineral-rights natural-gas property-rights takings takings-clause Whether the Pennsylvania Dunham Rule, which excludes natural gas from the definition of 'minerals' for purposes of mineral rights ownership, violates …