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Texas Appeals Court News

Texas appeals lawyer Ryan Clinton has handled a wide variety of Texas appeals, including oil-and-gas appeals, government-law appeals, contract appeals, business appeals, tax appeals, and personal injury appeals. He has also published multiple papers for continuing legal education conferences.

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Ryan Clinton Presents at the University of Texas School of Law's 50th Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas & Mineral Law Institute

Texas appellate attorney Ryan Clinton presented at the 50th Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute on April 4, 2004. Ryan presented on the topic “Estate Misconception & Presumed Grant: Navigating Mineral-Ownership Disputes after Van Dyke.” Ryan and DGC associate Laine Schmelzer also wrote a CLE paper on the topic viewable here.

The paper and speech presented a deep dive into the Supreme Court of Texas’s recent opinion in Van Dyke v. Navigator Group, 668 S.W.3d 353 (Tex. 2003). The Court’s landmark opinion substantially changed the rules for resolving mineral-ownership disputes in Texas. Ryan’s speech discussed what led to the Court’s decision, what the opinion means for current litigants, and what questions were left unanswered for us to litigate about for the next decade or more.