A second federal judge has rejected Tucker Arensberg’s second attempt to escape a lawsuit accusing the firm and one of its attorneys of engaging in fraudulent conduct in the sale of a $3 million Pennsylvania property to an oil-and-gas company.

Prime Energy and Chemical is alleging that Tucker Arensberg, through lawyer Michael Shiner, misrepresented its client’s ownership of a property in McKean County that Prime Energy contracted to buy. Prime Energy filed the lawsuit in March 2018. The parties entered mediation in December but the case was not resolved.