Legal Opinion

Poplar Creek Development Co. v. Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C.

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided February 17, 2011No. 09-5914, 10-5373PublishedCited by 101 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

These cases arise out of a dispute over the respective rights of lessors and lessees under Kentucky oil and gas leases. Both actions are resolved by determining whether Kentucky law allows lessees, in calculating gas royalty payments, to take into account certain post-production costs as an offset against the value or proceeds upon which royalty payments are based. Because the two appeals involve the same or similar leases, have some parties in common, and raise similar legal questions, we have consolidated these two cases for decision.

In case number 09-5914 (the…

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