( September 29, 2026, 10:48 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Finding that a Pugh clause in a mineral lease “must clearly and unequivocally express the intent to contract out of” Louisiana’s presumption of indivisibility, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of claims brought against a hydraulic fracturing operator by a mineral rights owner seeking termination of a portion of a larger lease that had been unitized by the state Conservation commissioner....