Private Oil & Gas Royalties: The Latest Trends, Developments, and Challenges in Oil & Gas Royalty Litigation

The papers presented at the 2008 Special Institute on Private Oil & Gas Royalties are available as a written manual (looseleaf binder). Chapters include:

• Reports from the courthouses in select states with recent royalty litigation activity
• Currents trends in class action procedure in royalty litigation
• CAFA update: The class action jurisdictional world clarifies
• A view from the bench regarding the trial of Rogers v. Westerman Farm Co.
• The trial of a private royalty lawsuit to judge and jury
• Law of producing states regarding valuation of oil and gas for severance taxes
• Judicial interpretations of royalty obligations and the resulting drafting lessons
• Current trends in class action royalty settlements
• Going forward methodologies in class action settlements - Negotiating a going forward calculation and reporting methodology and implementing the negotiated methodologies
• The next new thing: The duty to develop and compelled capital expenditures in a time of fiscal retrenchment
• Hot topics in legal ethics and attorney regulation
• Evaluating the purchase and sale agreement in light of potential royalty and tax claims
• Discovery and document preservation issues presented by royalty owner lawsuits as affected by mergers and acquisitions and statutes of limitation decisions
• The first and last defenses in private royalty litigation: Statute of limitations and constitutional defenses

Mineral Law Series Volume 2008, Number 5 (December 2008)Manual: 1 looseleaf volume/643 pagesISBN 1-882047-39-0