Jacklin Romeo, Susan S. Rine, and Debra Snyder Miller v. Antero Resources Corporation (Justice Bunn, dissenting)

No. 23-589, Jacklin Romeo, Susan S. Rine, and Debra Snyder Miller v. Antero Resources Corporation FILED June 12, 2025 C. CASEY FORBES, CLERK BUNN, Justice, dissenting: SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA I disagree with the majority’s opinion in this case. While I do not seek to wholly abandon more than two decades of precedent set forth in Wellman v. Energy Resources, Inc., 210 W. Va. 200,

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(2001), and expanded in Estate of Tawney v. Columbia Natural Resources, L.L.C., 219 W. Va. 266,

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(2006),1 I instead would have answered the first certified question from the…