( May 20, 2026, 1:50 PM EDT) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge in Ohio has issued a mixed ruling in a complex and long-running mineral rights class action dispute, partially granting and partially denying multiple pretrial evidentiary motions by both landowners and oil and gas companies. The judge allowed the parties to introduce evidence related to the ambiguity of the language in the leases at issue but excluded evidence concerning settlement discussions and barred references to certain separate lawsuits, including an overturned Ohio verdict....