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American Petroleum Institute Leader Lauds States' Role in Promoting Energy Sector

At the recent American Petroleum Institute (API) Annual State of American Energy event in Washington, D.C., president and CEO Jack Gerard focused in his address on how the United States is currently leading the world in the energy arena with its "trifecta" of success in energy production, economic growth and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Texas Lawyer

Conoco Wins Over $10M in Refinery Dispute with Venezuelan Oil Company

Houston-based ConocoPhillips Company recently was awarded over $10 million by a New York federal court in connection with its dispute related to an oil refining operation involving two former joint partners that are subsidiaries of the Venezuelan national oil company.
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Corporate Counsel

Freeport-McMoRan Takes Activist Hit

Executives can learn some lessons from the activist assault on Freeport-McMoRan and other companies, practitioners say, including the importance of avoiding conflicts of interest.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Mahonski v. Rider, PICS Case No. 15-2011 (C.P. Lycoming Nov. 12, 2015) Saylor, J. (7 pages).

By | January 05, 2016
Attorneys did not breach duty to other family members in drafting of real property purchase and sale agreement to son of one sibling of family where no attorney-client relationship existed and where no damages had occurred by any possible breach. Defendants' motion for summary judgment granted.
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Texas Lawyer

Dallas Wind Co. Scores $65M Award in Dispute with Chinese Partner

The Dallas-based wind energy developer Tang Energy Group recently announced that it has been awarded $65 million by an arbitration panel in connection with its breach of contract dispute with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).
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Law.com

DOJ Sues Volkswagen, Seeks to Join Emissions MDL

The Justice Department has sued Volkswagen A.G. claiming it violated the Clean Air Act by installing illegal defeat devices in nearly 600,000 diesel engine vehicles in the United States that were designed to cheat emissions tests.
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Texas Lawyer

Akin Gump Represents Northern Tier in Merger With Western Refining

The firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is representing Northern Tier Energy in its pending merger with Western Refining, an independent oil refiner and marketer headquartered in El Paso.
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Texas Lawyer

Citgo Hit with $81M Fine for 2006 Oil Spill

Louisiana Federal Judge Richard Haik recently hiked Houston-based Citgo Petroleum Corporation's civil penalty for a massive 2006 oil spill in Louisiana from $6 million to $81 million after the case was remanded back to his court by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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The Recorder

Cuprite Mine Partners LLC v. Anderson

By | December 31, 2015
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National Law Journal

Op-Ed: AG's Subpoenas over Climate Change Flout Constitution

Liberals purport to venerate “tolerance” and “diversity”—until it involves tolerating diverse public policy opinions that deviate from liberal orthodoxy. The most recent example of this political correctness is the increasingly aggressive effort to brand anyone who does not pledge fealty to “climate change” orthodoxy as not just a heretic, but now a criminal, too.
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