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Who Owns the Void? Oral Arguments at SCOTX Regarding Underground Storage Rights

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This case presents two critical questions: Who owns subsurface caverns created by salt mining operations, and How should in-kind royalties be calculated for salt production? 2017), where the Court emphasized that “the surface owner owns and controls the mass of earth undergirding the surface.” 3d 39 , 47 (Tex.

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