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
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