Another reason not to worry about the legal issue is to remember...

Another reason not to worry about the legal issue is to remember that Frank sunk $100k into shares and he would have a very close undrestanding of the risks. So while he might have it wrong I doubt that they are very worried and also if there was a strong case, the other party could have set up an injunction to prevent drilling. So you would assume that the other party is seeing the incredible opportunity and wants in, but since they have been talking about this for some years as it was raised back in 2010, you would think it unlikely that this was going to have any material impact on the drill program