CA Oil, Gas, Mineral Royalty Owners Join Pacific Legal Foundation to Announce Federal Challenge to New York Anti Oil and Natural Gas Policy

CA Oil, Gas, Mineral Royalty Owners Join Pacific Legal Foundation to Announce Federal Challenge to New York Anti Oil and Natural Gas Policy

NARO-California, of the National Association of Royalty Owners, together with Pacific Legal Foundation announced in January their federal lawsuit challenging Senate Bill 1137, the 3,200-foot oil setback mandate that they argue violates the constitutional rights of oil and gas mineral and royalty owners. According to NARO-CA and Pacific Legal Foundation, SB 1137 amounts to an uncompensated taking of private property in violation of the Fifth Amen…