After failing to comply with its order on remand, the Ohio Supreme Court reversed an Eleventh District Court of Appeals’ ruling, which failed to follow the high court’s instructions to weigh the parties’ evidence in deciding whether the state’s suspension of operations at a private company’s salt-water-injection well constituted a total or partial government taking of property.

The court further concluded that the appellate court violated law-of-the-case doctrine by deciding that the company lacked a cognizable property interest in its leasehold right to operate a saltwater-injection well, despite the state high court previously deciding that a leasehold interest was established.