Texas Extends 'Accommodation Doctrine' To Groundwater

Law360, New York (June 24, 2016, 11:53 AM EDT) -- On May 27, 2016, the Texas Supreme Court issued an important ruling regarding the venerable "accommodation doctrine," initially developed to resolve oil and gas disputes between landowners and the owners of subsurface minerals, by extending its application to ongoing disputes between landowners and the owners of subsurface groundwater. The decision in Coyote Lake Ranch LLC v. The City of Lubbock, can be seen as a predictable evolution in the court's approach to groundwater and the need to access this resource in a fair and reasonable manner....

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