Frost Brown Todd LLC | USA | 3 Jun 2022
On June 1, 2022, the Ohio Senate unanimously passed House Bill (HB) 515, which specifies two situations where income from the sale of ownership…
Maurice Wutscher LLP | USA | 31 May 2022
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently rejected the latest in a series of appeals and other challenges by a borrower to the validity of a judgment of…
Frost Brown Todd LLC | USA | 30 Mar 2022
On July 8, 2020, we reported on the Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals decision in Fonzi v. Brown, which held, as a matter of law, that a surface…
Frost Brown Todd LLC | USA | 25 Mar 2022
In Peppertree Farms, L.L.C. v. Thonen, 2022-Ohio-395 (“Peppertree I”), the Ohio Supreme Court held that two pre-1925 deeds reserving oil and gas…
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP | USA | 24 Mar 2022
On March 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ohio once again addressed the level of diligence a surface owner must exercise in attempting to identify and…
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP | USA | 3 Mar 2022
In a pair of decisions, the Ohio Supreme Court in Peppertree Farms, L.L.C. v. Thonen, Slip Opinion No. 2022-Ohio-395, and Peppertree Farms, L.L.C. v…
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP | USA | 3 Mar 2022
The Ohio Supreme Court issued an opinion surrounding the lease and transfer of the subsurface oil and gas rights in a property that was subject to…
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP | USA | 24 Jan 2022
As operators continue to develop the Utica shale in Ohio, they will likely encounter unique title issues that they have not seen before. One of those…
SandRun Risk | USA | 26 Apr 2021
The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to answer certified questions of law on COVID-19 property damage. The answers to these questions will have a…
Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP | USA | 23 Apr 2021
The 7th District Court of Appeals in Ohio recently addressed what elements a co-tenant must satisfy to adversely possess a severed oil and gas…