( January 12, 2026, 9:06 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A mineral rights holding company has appealed to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a decision by a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss the holding company’s claims against a hydraulic fracturing operator on grounds that because a Pugh clause in a mineral lease between the parties “lacks the clarity necessary to encompass” compulsory unitization of wells, the lease was indivisible despite periods in which certain wells were not producing....