Camp Ne'er Too Late, LP v. Swepi, LP

MEMORANDUM

Matthew W. Brann, United States District Judge

The renowned eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope once wrote, “Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”1 The dispute presently before the Court was fueled by the outsized and unsupported expectations of landowners who entered into a natural gas lease and subsequent agreements during a time when such exploration was steadily reaching its zenith in Pennsylvania’s northern tier counties. As the natural gas boom gradually winnowed, drilling companies, like the one hauled into court here, reacted…