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CITIZENS COAL COUNCIL v. NORTON

Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The Secretary of the Interior's interpretation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, to exclude subsidence from the definition of...

US EX REL. PERLER v. PAPANDON

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law, Tax Law
Taxpayers who used a daisy chain scheme to evade gasoline excise taxes may be held jointly and severally liable under state partnership law, for...

PALADIN ASSOCS., INC. v. MONTANA POWER CO.

Contracts, Oil and Gas Law, Public Utilities
Five-year assignments of natural gas transportation rights were not unreasonable agreements under section 1 of the Sherman Act, and plaintiff failed...

INTERMOUNTAIN MUNI. GAS AGENCY v. FED. ENERGY REGULATORY COMM'N

Administrative Law, Oil and Gas Law
Whether or not FERC could regulate an association comprised of municipalities as to proposed distribution of gas across state lines, FERC had...

HS RESOURCES, INC. v. WINGATE

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Oil and Gas Law
District court properly held that a lease for natural gas allows pooling and provides for payment of royalties on a pooled basis, but the decisions...

ATL. STATES LEGAL FOUND., INC. v. ENVTL. PROT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, Public Utilities
Challenges to EPA regulations allowing certain electric, telephone, and natural gas facilities to accumulate hazardous waste without a permit are not...

SHAMSIAN v. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO.

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law
Plaintiffs' cause of action under Health and Safety Code section 25249.7, of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, is barred by...

N. PLAINS RES. COUNCIL v. FID. EXPLORATION & DEV. CO.

Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, Water Law
Unaltered groundwater produced in association with methane gas extraction, and discharged into a river, is a pollutant under the Clean Water Act...

CERASO v. MOTIVA ENTERPRISES, LLC

Commercial Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
District court's order enjoining defendants, under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. section 2801 et seq., from terminating or failing...

HS RES., INC. v. WINGATE

Landlord Tenant Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute over royalty payments on a natural gas well, a sub-lessor had authority under a lease to pool leased land with neighboring land, and owed...