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March 28, 2016 |

Oil Field Workers Get $1.5M in Back Wages, Damages Due to Department of Labor Probe

Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor conducted an investigation in the Texas and New Mexico oil and gas sector that led to 241 oil well service workers being paid a total of $1.5 million – $750,000 in back wages and an additional equal amount in liquidated damages.
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March 16, 2016 |

Landowners Hit Chesapeake Energy with Antitrust Case

Unhappy landowners recently brought an antitrust class action lawsuit against Chesapeake Energy Corp. and other defendants in an Oklahoma federal court, and alleged that the defendants rigged bids and otherwise depressed the amounts they paid to property owners for the acquisition of oil and gas leasehold interests and producing properties in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
3 minute read
March 03, 2016 |

Updated: Indicted Ex-Chesapeake CEO Dies in Fiery Single-Car Crash

Aubrey McClendon, a natural gas industry titan, was killed when police say he drove his sport utility vehicle "straight into a wall" in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, a day after he was indicted on a charge of conspiring to rig bids to buy oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma.
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February 26, 2016 |

Baker Botts, Andrews Kurth Assist with Chesapeake's Pending Sale of $385M in O&G Assets to FourPoint Energy

Chesapeake Energy Corp. recently entered an agreement to sell its remaining natural gas-heavy property in the Western Anadarko Basin for $385 million to FourPoint Energy, a privately held exploration and production company based in Denver.
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February 22, 2016 |

Sierra Club Sues Oil and Gas Companies for Allegedly Causing Earthquakes Through Fracking

According to the complaint filed in federal court in Oklahoma by the Sierra Club, three companies' practice of injecting liquid oil and gas waste into deep ground wells alledgedly contributed to an increase of more than 5,800 earthquakes in Oklahoma in 2015, up from an annual average high of 167 from 1977 to 2009.
3 minute read
February 13, 2016 |

Municipal Stormwater Permitting and Stormwater Authorities

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, or DEP, is in the process of finalizing changes to individual and general permits for Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) that would result in stringent and costly requirements on municipalities throughout the state. Coincidentally, the Municipality Authorities Act was recently amended to allow for creation of stormwater authorities. In light of the growing regulatory burden associated with municipal stormwater permitting, municipal officials increasingly are looking to form stormwater authorities as a vehicle to comply with these requirements.
8 minute read
January 26, 2016 |

The Role of Affirmative Defenses in Opposing Class Certification

Two lines of authority, one obsolete and the other misunderstood, are the apparent sources of this misguided assertion.
6 minute read
January 19, 2016 |

Split Resolved on Class Action Arbitrations in Oil and Gas Leases

On Jan. 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision answering the question of whether language in an arbitration clause referencing "the rules of the American Arbitration Association" was sufficient to rebut the presumption that the court, not the arbitrator, decided whether a class action arbitration was agreed to by the parties, as in Chesapeake Appalachia v. Scout Petroleum, No. 14-1275, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 42 (3d Cir. Jan. 5, 2016).
6 minute read
January 05, 2016 |

Burleson's Demise Caused by More than Drop in Price of Oil

Current and former Burleson lawyers said other factors contributed to the firm's closing on Dec. 31, 2015.
12 minute read
January 05, 2016 | Law.com

Burleson's Demise Caused by More than Drop in Price of Oil

Current and former Burleson lawyers said other factors contributed to the firm's closing on Dec. 31, 2015.
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