A lawsuit brought by two West Virginia landowners seeking to overturn the state’s newly enacted forced pooling (i.e. unitization) law was put on pause by a federal judge on Dec. 1. The same two landowners had a previous version of the same lawsuit tossed by the judge back in September (see Lawsuit to Block West Virginia’s New Forced Pooling Law Tossed Out). The previous lawsuit sued the wrong people, according to the federal judge. This newer version sued the right people (mostly), but certain parts of it are more properly handled by state (and not federal) courts, according to the judge’s Dec. 1 ruling.
A lawsuit brought by two West Virginia landowners seeking to overturn the state’s newly enacted forced pooling (i.e. unitization) law was put on pause by a federal judge on Dec. 1. The same two landowners had a previous version of the same lawsuit tossed by the judge back in September (see 