1. This case presents an important question concerning whether a State effects a taking requiring just compensation within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause (U.S. Const. Amend. V) when, by approving an administrative order, that State's highest court puts its imprimatur on a transfer without compensation of ownership of mineral rights, and of actual oil and gas that would otherwise be owned by Applicant, to private parties.

Whether a state's regulatory 'forced pooling' regime that allows involuntary transfer of mineral rights and oil production without full compensation constitutes a taking under the Fifth Amendment