all - Opinion Summaries

Martin v. US

Constitutional Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Affirmed that a Fifth Amendment takings claim was not ripe in a case where the plaintiffs alleged that the U.S. government had caused a compensable...

Petersen Energía Inversora, S.A.U. v. Argentine Republic

Corporation & Enterprise Law, International Law, Oil and Gas Law
Affirmed the denial of a motion to dismiss based on foreign sovereign immunity under the Foreign Sovereignty Immunity Act in a securities lawsuit...

Kiobel v. Cravath, Swain & Moore, LLP

Civil Procedure, International Law, Oil and Gas Law
Reversed an order which had allowed the plaintiff to subpoena documents from a U.S. law firm for use in litigation against Royal Dutch Shell in the...

Wayne Land and Mineral Group L v. Delaware River Basin Com.

Oil and Gas Law, Civil Procedure
Vacated an order that had dismissed plaintiff's complaint where plaintiff sought a declaratory judgment to conduct hydraulic fracturing to obtain...

In Re: Petition of Frescati Shipping Company, Ltd.

Oil and Gas Law, International Law, Contracts
In the case of the complicated fallout from an oil tanker spill, parties were allocated responsibility based on contracts and equitable recoupment...

Southern California Gas Leak Cases

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law
Granting a petition for peremptory writ of mandate in a case alleging purely financial loss in a suit between seven businesses that suffered economic...

Association of Irritated Residents v. Kern County Board of Supervisors

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law
Reversing and remanding a suit between irritated residents and those attempting to modify an oil refinery for the rail shipment of crude oil for the...

In Re Smith International

Intellectual Property, Patent, Oil and Gas Law
Reversing a decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent and Trial Appeal Board affirming the examiner's rejections of patent...

Ironshore Specialty Insurance Company v. US

Oil and Gas Law, Civil Procedure, Water Law
Affirming the dismissal of a insurer's Oil Pollution Act claims against the United States arising from an oil spill cleanup but reversing the...

Delaware Riverkeeper Network v. US Army Corps of Engineers

Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Oil and Gas Law
Denying a petition for the review of the decision of the US Army Corps of Engineers to issue a permit approving the project of a gas pipeline company...