( October 9, 2025, 1:58 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — Hydraulic fracturing leaseholders have filed a brief in the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, arguing that it should deny a fracking operator’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that adopted a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation that granted the leaseholders partial class certification in a royalty dispute. The leaseholders say that their breach of contract claim is “well-established.”...