By Jim Saunders | October 26, 2017
State regulators approved a wide-ranging settlement agreement that ends the possibility Duke Energy Florida will build a nuclear power plant…
By Jenna Greene | Litigation Daily | October 16, 2017
The ace litigator is trying to stop a potential conflagration in its tracks. At issue is whether PG&E will face punitive damages in the 2015 Butte fire.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Barbara M. Goodstein | October 4, 2017
In her Secured Transactions column, Barbara M. Goodstein writes: The nature of electricity as an asset under the UCC will undoubtedly become more of an issue over time. Overall, most courts considering the issue have held electricity to constitute “goods,” although the bankruptcy cases continue to be divided. New York courts are the sole outlier in non-bankruptcy cases.
By By Michael Marciano | September 29, 2017
Connecticut's legal community has been eager to assist fellow Americans in Puerto Rico who have experienced a humanitarian crisis since Hurricane Maria hit the island Sept. 20.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | August 25, 2017
Failure to Make Statutorily-Required Disclosure Conspicuous Was Unfair Practice
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 25, 2017
The trial court properly held that the Borough of Ellwood City's ordinances precluded the Borough from back-billing for electricity and related services and that the Borough's purported municipal lien premised upon a contractual arrangement was preclude. The court affirmed a trial court order granting defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings.
By Carley Meiners | The Legal Intelligencer | August 18, 2017
Defendants could not maintain their joinder complaint against Littlestown Borough in this action arising out of injuries plaintiff suffered on defendants' property where they failed to demonstrate that the utility services facilities exception to governmental immunity applied. The court granted the defendant municipality's motion for summary judgment.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 11, 2017
An agreement reached through a series of letters regarding individual billings to mobile home park tenants for sewer charges was binding on the township. Owners of the park were secondarily liable if the individual tenants failed to make payment.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 4, 2017
Trial court properly found that a de facto condemnation occurred and granted landowner's petition for appointment of a board of viewers because the manner in which sewer authority chose to operate its system caused repeated flooding of sewage into landowner's house and property where authority designed its manholes so that sewage exited at a slower rate than it entered, was well aware of the likelihood of an overflow and took no steps to remedy the structural defect. Affirmed.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 28, 2017
Trial court properly denied condemnees' preliminary objections to pipeline company's declaration of taking because the court had decided that company had a CPC, company was a public utility regulated by the PUC and was authorized to exercise eminent domain and condemnees' notice argument failed because notice was provided to the only party tasked with warranting and defending the alleged and unrecorded bridle path easement. Affirmed.
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