( January 9, 2026, 1:09 PM EST) -- TOPEKA, Kan. — A federal judge in Kansas on Jan. 8 denied an oil company’s motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the minority owner of leasing rights from conducting hydraulic fracturing operations during the pendency of the oil company’s lawsuit against the minority owner for allegations of breach of contract. The judge said that the oil company failed to “meet its burden to sustain the extraordinary remedy” it requested....