( September 3, 2025, 11:16 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An energy company has filed a response brief in the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals arguing that a lower court properly granted summary judgment against plaintiffs in a hydraulic fracturing royalty dispute based on the language of an Arkansas statute the energy company says “expressly discharges operators and working interest owners from any lease obligations” related to the first 1/8 of the amount of gas produced and sold from Arkansas integrated drilling units....