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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | June 2, 2017
OOR erred in holding that a "well site" was not an "industrial plant" and court found that investigative reports pertaining to well sites were public records in a RTKL action but OOR correctly held that DEP met its burden of showing that certain records were exempt under the attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, records relating to the location of radioactive material were exempt under public safety and security concerns, other documents were exempt under trade secret and confidential information, the notes and working papers, internal predecisional deliberation and noncriminal investigation exemptions. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
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By therecorder | The Recorder | June 2, 2017
C.A. 4th; D070771 The Fourth Appellate District affirmed in part and reversed in part a judgment and remanded. The court held that a water district may…
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By therecorder | The Recorder | June 2, 2017
C.A. 4th; D070562 The Fourth Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that a water district failed to show that pollutants in the shallow…
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By therecorder | The Recorder | June 1, 2017
C.A. 4th; D070171 The Fourth Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that the trial court properly applied the independent standard of…
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By Charles Toutant | May 26, 2017
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office has reached a $39 million consent agreement with Phillips 66 Co. over claims that it produced gasoline that contaminated the state's waterways with the additive MTBE.
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By Zack Needles | May 26, 2017
In a ruling that could prove instructive to parties seeking to block construction of natural gas wells in their communities, the Commonwealth Court overruled an Allegheny County borough's denial of a driller's conditional use application, finding that the borough council relied on inadequate testimony by objectors.
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By Marcia Coyle | May 23, 2017
A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's order that agencies eliminate two existing regulations for each new one will go forward despite the U.S. Justice Department's effort to end it quickly on procedural grounds.
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By Max Mitchell | May 15, 2017
The state Supreme Court's most recent decision striking down portions of Act 13 dealing with eminent domain for oil and gas industry projects did not disturb a prior decision allowing Sunoco to condemn property for its Mariner East 2 pipeline, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
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By Ross Todd | May 11, 2017
Plaintiffs lawyers led by Lieff Cabraser's Elizabeth Cabraser intend to seek roughly 15 percent of the settlement fund, or $180 million.
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By Zack Needles | May 5, 2017
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will not disturb a ruling in a well contamination suit in which the Commonwealth Court sided with an oil and gas driller despite calling its business practices "reckless."
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