Court of Appeals of Texas April 14, 2016, NO. 14-14-00739-CV (Alta Mesa Holdings, L.P., Alta Mesa Acquisition Sub, LLC, the Meridian Resource & Exploration LLC Change in Control Severance Plan, and the Meridian Resource & Exploration, LLC v. Steven Ives and Lloyd Delano)

Affirmed in Part as Modified, Reversed and Rendered in Part, and Opinion filed

April 14, 2016.

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

NO. 14-14-00739-CV

ALTA MESA HOLDINGS, L.P., ALTA MESA ACQUISITION SUB, LLC, THE

MERIDIAN RESOURCE & EXPLORATION LLC CHANGE IN CONTROL

SEVERANCE PLAN, AND THE MERIDIAN RESOURCE & EXPLORATION,

LLC, Appellants

V.