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Equilon Enter. v. State Bd. of Equalization

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law, Health Law, Oil and Gas Law, Tax Law
In plaintiff's suit seeking a refund of $3,910,359.10 it paid for the year 2002 pursuant to regulations promulgated under the Childhood Lead Poisoning...

AEP Energy Servs. Gas Holding Co. v. Bank of Am., N.A.

Banking Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law
In an action against two banks in alleging a superior right to continue to use the gas in a natural gas storage facility, summary judgment for...

Texas Gas Transmissions, LLC v. Butler County of Bd. of Comm'r

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief, brought by Butler County and Texas Gas, seeking a declaration of the priority of their respective...

Huitt v. S. California Gas Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law, Product Liability, Public Utilities, Remedies
In plaintiffs suit against a gas company for sustaining serious injuries when accumulated natural gas exploded while attempting to light a water...

Lazarin v. Superior Court

Labor & Employment Law, Oil and Gas Law, Contracts, Government Law
In three union-represented construction workers' suit against their former employer, on behalf of themselves and a putative class of former and...

Am. Energy Corp. v. Rockies Express Pipeline LLC.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In the parties' third action over a land-use dispute between coal companies and a pipeline company involving the Federal Energy Regulatory...

City of Los Angeles v. Tesoro Ref. & Mktg. Co.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Public Utilities
In a city's suit for declaratory relief against a refinery, establishing that as a charter city, the California Constitution gives it the exclusive...

Celanese Corp. v. Martin K. Eby Co.

Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law
In an action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), and the Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA),...

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petro. Co.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Oil and Gas Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
In an action by residents of Nigeria claiming that Dutch, British, and Nigerian corporations engaged in oil exploration and production aided and...

Rio Grande Royalty Co. v. Energy Transfer Ptnrs., L.P.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law, Securities Law
In an action contending that defendants committed common law fraud by truthfully reporting natural gas transactions that, because of the defendants'...