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Beardslee v. Inflection Energy, LLC

Contracts, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action involving a dispute over the parties' oil and gas leases in which the district court granted summary judgment in favor plaintiff...

Cooperstown Holstein Corporation v. Town of Middlefield

Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Towns may ban oil and gas production activities, including hydrofracking, within municipal boundaries through the adoption of local zoning laws, where...

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. v. CA PUC

Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, Public Utilities
Petitions for writ of review to challenge the California Public Utilities Commission's (PUC) decisions approving Southern California Gas Company's...

Norex Petroleum Limited v. Blavatnik

International Law, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law
In a long-running contest over control of a lucrative oil field in Western Siberia, the Appellate Division erred in concluding that plaintiff's...

Paramount Petroleum Corp. v. Superior Court (Building Materials Corporation)

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law
In a breach of contract action involving a long-term contract under which defendant would supply plaintiff with its requirements for asphalt coating...

Packgen v. BP Exploration & Production

Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendant in an action arising out of failed negotiations between the parties over the purchase of oil containment boom...

Shell Oil Company v. US

Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Oil and Gas Law
In an action brought by plaintiff-oil companies alleging that the government is responsible for costs incurred by plaintiffs under the Comprehensive...

Century Exploration v. US

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law
Summary judgment to the government in a breach of contract action in which plaintiff alleges that the government breached their lease to the mineral...

BG Group PLC v. Republic of Argentina

Contracts, Constitutional Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, International Law, Oil and Gas Law
The decision by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that arbitrators lacked authority to decide a dispute between the parties...

Trans Energy, Inc. v. EQT Production Company

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action to quiet title arising out of competing claims of ownership to the gas rights underlying a 3,800 acre plot of land located in northern...