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Royalty Owners Seeking Class Certification Sent Back to the Trial Court

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The latest Fifth Circuit opinion in Seeligson v. Devon Energy Production, L.P. is the latest round in a class action that has been developing since 2014....more

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Installation of Reciprocal Internal Combustion Engines/Tucson, Arizona, Generating Station: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) addressed in a December 3rd decision a Petition for Review (“Petition”) the Sierra Club filed challenging a Clean Air Act...more

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Fifth Circuit Reviews Approval Of Adversary Proceeding Settlement For Abuse Of Discretion

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In In re Beach v. Beach, the Fifth Circuit elaborated on its standard of review for adversary litigation settlements. No. 17-10481 (5th Cir. May 16, 2018). In this case, Debtor, a Dallas oil-and-gas businessman, formed a...more

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Competitors in the Courtroom: When to Exclude a Party’s Designated Representative from Hearing a Competitor’s Trade Secrets

“You sued them. They stay, period.” This is the conclusion a Texas trial court came to when asked to exclude the designated representative of a party from a hearing where an employee of the other party, a direct competitor,...more

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Oil-And-Gas Services Companies Argue Over Trial Court’s Authority to Exclude Corporate Representatives Under New Texas Trade...

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On January 13, before the Texas Supreme Court, two major oil-and-gas-services companies disputed whether Texas’s new trade secret laws require a trial court to exclude a party’s corporate representative from a hearing at...more

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