STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
At a Regular Term of the Supreme Court of Appeals continued and held at

Charleston, Kanawha County, on the 25th of January, 2017, the following order was made
and entered:

Patrick D. Leggett, et al.,
Plaintiffs Below, Petitioners

vs.) No. 16?0136

EQT Production Company, et al.,
Defendants Below, Respondents

ORDER

On December 19, 2016, the respondent, EQT Production Company, by counsel
David K. Hendrickson and Carl L. Hendrickson Long PLLC, ?led a
petition for rehearing. An amicus curiae brief was ?led by the West Virginia Oil and
Natural Gas Association, by counsel Timothy M. Miller and Mychal S. Schultz, Babst
Calland Clements Zomnir, PC, in support of the respondent?s petition for rehearing on
January 12, 2017.

Thereafter, on January 13, 2017, the petitioners, Patrick D. al., by
Marvin W. Masters, Richard A. Monahan, and April D. Ferrebee, The Masters Law Firm
lc; and Michael W. Carey, Carey, Scott, Douglas 8: Kessler, PLLC, ?led a response in
opposition to the petition for rehearing. On the same day, the West Virginia Land and .
Mineral Owners? Association, West Virginia RoyaltyOwners? Association, West Virginia
Farm Bureau, National Association of Royalty Owners Appalachia, and Lewis Maxwell

Oil Gas LLC, by counsel Howard M. Persinger, Persinger 8: Persinger, and

 

 

 

 

John F. McCuskey, Shuman, McCusliey-Bic Slicer,-PLLC, ?led an aimkz'curzkze brief in
opposition to the petition for rehearingUpon consideration; the-Court is of the opinion to and does-hereby grant the
petition for rehearing. Justices Davis and Workman would refuse the petition.

- It is ordered that this matter be scheduled for. oral. argument under-Rule 20 of the
Rules of Appellate Rrocedure on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, and this order constitutes the
Notice of Argument pursuant to Rule 20 

It is further ordered that this matter shall be re?briefed. The petitioners are
directed to ?le an original and ten copies of a petitioners? brief on or before February 28,
2017. The respondent is directed to ?le a like number of a respondent?s brief on or before
March 30, 2017. Any reply brief deemed necessary may be ?led by the petitioners on or
before April 14, 2017. It is imperative that all briefs be timely ?led.

Service of an attested copy of this order upon all parties herein shall constitute

suf?cient notice of the contents herein.

A True Copy

Attest: [ls/l Rory L. Perry II
Clerk of Court