About $17.3 million in attorneys’ fees awarded in a class action suit over oil and gas royalty payments were vacated because notification procedures weren’t properly followed, the Tenth Circuit said Wednesday.
“The district court abused its discretion by not requiring notice of the 2018 motion for attorneys’ fees,” Judge Veronica S. Rossman said on behalf of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Chieftain Royalty Co. sued SM Energy Co.—the operator of the Oklahoma wells at issue—for the alleged underpayment of oil and gas royalties under various tort theories. Those underlying claims resulting in a ...
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