The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in the case of HPIP Gonzalez Holding, LLC v. Sabine Oil & Gas Corp. (In re Sabine Oil & Gas Corp.), recently affirmed three decisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, finding that certain mineral gathering agreements could be rejected as executory contracts pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 365(a).