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Rogers v. Petroleo Brasileiro, S.A.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, International Law, Oil and Gas Law, Securities Law
In an action brought in federal district court in New York against the state-owned oil company of Brazil for breach of the terms and conditions of...

Shell Oil Co. v. US

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Judges & Judiciary, Oil and Gas Law
In an appeal from a decision of the Court of Federal Claims requiring the United States to indemnify certain oil companies for environmental cleanup...

Chevron Corp. v. Naranjo

Environmental Law, International Law, Judgement Enforcement, Oil and Gas Law
In a case in which a potential judgment-debtor sought a global anti-enforcement injunction against defendants from the Lago Agrio region of the...

Klein v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law
In a class action complaint predicated on the defendant's practice of purchasing wholesale motor fuel in gallon units at a standardized temperature of...

Western States Petroleum Ass'n v. State Board of Equalization

Administrative Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In an action for declaratory relief seeking to invalidate a regulation of the State Board of Equalization (SBE) that adopted new valuation formulas...

System Fuels, Inc. v. US

Contracts, Government Contracts, Oil and Gas Law, Public Utilities, Remedies
In a case in which the United States Court of Federal Claims determined that the United States breached a contract for the removal of spent nuclear...

Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v. Valladolid

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Oil and Gas Law, Workers' Compensation
In an appeal from a judgment of the appeals court vacating an administrative dismissal of respondent's Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) claim...

The Shoshone Indian Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming v. US

Civil Procedure, Indian Law, Oil and Gas Law
In a consolidated suit by Indian tribes including a claim that the government unlawfully converted oil and gas leases on a reservation from one type...

Citizens for East Shore Parks v. Cal. State Lands Commn.

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, Remedies
In a writ challenge to respondent's approval of a lease-renewal allowing Chevron to continue operating an offshore oil terminal, judgment of the trial...

Minard Run Oil Company v. US Forest Service

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Remedies
In an appeal from a judgment of the district court granting a preliminary injunction overturning a moratorium on new drilling for oil or gas in the...