A newly filed collective action in Ohio federal court against an oil and gas company highlights the importance of wage-hour law...
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In Browne v. Artex Oil Co., Case No. 17 CA 20, the Fifth District recently determined that an action to declare an oil and gas...
Tags: Ohio, Leases, Oil and Gas, Energy,
On June 29, 2018, USEPA issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (the “Supplemental Notice”) to its July 2017 proposed...
Tags: Environment
On June 13, 2018, a federal district court rejected a takings challenge to a unit order issued by the Ohio Division of Oil and...
Tags: Unitization, Ohio, Pooling, Oil and Gas,
A newly filed collective action in Ohio federal court against an oil and gas company highlights the importance of wage-hour law...
Tags: Oil and Gas, wage-hour law, Energy, FLSA
On June 1, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld most of the provisions of an injunction issued by the Commonwealth Court...
Tags: Uncategorized
On June 1, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in a 4 to 3 decision, held that, without first establishing a sufficient...
Tags: Zoning, Oil and Gas, Energy, Pennsylvania
In Browne v. Artex (May 31, 2018), Ohio’s Fifth District Court of Appeals held that a claim that an oil and gas lease expired for...
Tags: Ohio, Leases, Oil and Gas, Energy,
On May 25, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a district court’s decision that Sabine Oil &...
Tags: "Oil and Gas"; Bankruptcy, gathering; midstream, Energy
On May 1, 2018, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota affirmed a Magistrate’s decision to...
Tags: WOTUS, Clean Water Act, Army Corps, U.S. EPA,
On April 30, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming denied a motion to stay its April 4, 2018 order staying...
Tags: Waste Prevention Rule, Bureau of Land Management, BLM, Environment
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