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Supreme Court of Ohio Declines to Answer Certified Questions on Whether Ohio Follows the 'At The Well' Rule for Post-Production Costs

By Ilya Batikov

On November 2nd, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued its decision in Lutz v. Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C.   In its opinion, the Court declined to answer a certified question from the Northern District of Ohio regarding whether Ohio follows the “at the well” rule or the “marketable product” theory with respect to post-production costs, leaving it up to the federal court to interpret the parties’ contracts under traditional cannons of contract construction.

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