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PA: Blanket Assignments Upheld

By Greg Russell

Recently, an appellate court in Pennsylvania affirmed, on mandamus, the ability of oil and gas producers to record blanket lease assignments.  See Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC v. Golden, Case No. 883 C.D. 2011 (Jan. 27, 2012).  From the decision (among other things):  "Next, the Recorder asserts that Chesapeake is not entitled to mandamus relief because it has available the alternative, adequate remedy of recording individual lease assignments.  However, it goes without saying that filing single lease assignments is not an adequate remedy for a company that has the right to file multiple lease assignments and chooses to do so, but is illegally thwarted in that right."

Apparently, it needed to be said.  Nice.

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