Mealey's ( August 3, 2022, 12:41 PM EDT) -- DALLAS — A Texas appeals panel on Aug. 1 affirmed a lower court ruling that awarded a hydraulic fracturing operator $33,639,000 for the city of Dallas’ regulatory taking related to a fracking lease between the parties that eventually expired because the city, through protracted bureaucratic wrangling, actually denied the permit needed to drill pursuant to the lease....