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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Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, employees who are covered by the Act’s overtime provisions must receive overtime pay...
Tags: 'Utica Shale', Marcellus Shale, Fair Labor Standards Act, Oil and Gas,
The Supreme Court of Ohio held last week that a proposed voter initiative creating a Community Bill of Rights for the City of...
Tags: Community Bill of Rights, Ohio, Oil and Gas, Energy,
On August 6, 2018, the U.S. District Court in Wyoming upheld the vast majority of a Obama-era rule issued by the Department of...
Tags: Energy
On August 3, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated another municipal zoning decision favorable to oil and gas development....
Tags: Municipal Ordinances, Municipal Zoning, Oil and Gas, Energy,
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 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, 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
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