The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia has issued a major ruling in favor of a natural gas producer, reversing an intermediate court’s procedural dismissal and affirming a significant change in how the state calculates severance taxes for natural gas liquids. Spilman lawyers helped secure for our client the validation of amended returns filed for tax years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019, which sought more than $19 million in total refunds.