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Texas Lawyer

Federal Trade Commission to Review Proposed $37.7B Pipeline Merger

Dallas-based Energy Transfer Equity's (ETE) proposed $37.7 billion merger with The Williams Companies, which is based in Oklahoma, is to be reviewed by the Federal Trade Commission.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Quiet Title Action Stricken After Two-Plus Decades

A 1988 action to quiet title on 3,665 acres of land in Lycoming County failed to properly name a group of owners of subsurface rights to the land, the Superior Court has ruled, holding that a trial court was right to strike a 1989 default judgment in the case as void ab initio.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Smog-Busting Rules Could Drive Costly Upgrades at Texas Power Plants

The EPA recently finalized a plan for Texas to address serious air pollution that is negatively impacting visibility at the Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks in Texas, which will probably require pollution reductions from a number of Texas power plants.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Year in Review: Energy Law

In 2015 Texas oil and gas law continued to evolve. The 84th Legislature passed HB 40, curtailing the power of local authorities to regulate oil and gas development, so state law and agency regulations now typically preempt local control.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

INADMISSIBLE: EPA Official Protected From Deposition

By | December 14, 2015
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy won't be forced to testify in a Clean Air Act lawsuit, a federal appeals court ruled last week. Plus more in this week's column.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Family Feud: Texas High Court Hears Oil and Gas Royalty Fight

The case Hysaw v. Dawkins is up on appeal before the Texas Supreme Court and involves a legal dispute that has a number of Ethel Hysaw's descendants battling one another over the correct interpretation of Hysaw's 1947 will, which conveys lucrative mineral interests to her children.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Law Firm Levity: Vinson & Elkins Ties One On For Oil Industry

The making and the giving of Vinson & Elkins' neckties—at the NAPE oil and gas summit every February—has grown into an annual tradition for the firm, now quite proud of its most in-demand branded swag. "You've got to do something bold for the energy space," Lande Spottswood, a corporate finance senior associate in Houston and the firm's chief tie designer, said. The 2011 batch of ties numbered 350. The 2016 order will hit 1,000 ties and include makeup cases.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Devon To Pay $1.9B for New Oil Plays

Devon Energy recently announced it has agreed to acquire 80,000 net surface acres, with up to 10 prospective zones, in the Anadarko Basin STACK play in Oklahoma from privately held Felix Energy, a portfolio company of EnCap Investments, for $1.9 billion.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Great Oaks Water Company v. Santa Clara Valley Water District

By | December 09, 2015
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas High Court Limits Insurance Coverage for Bad Refinery Equipment

Currently, Houston-based U.S. Metals, which provides refineries with piping components, is in a lawsuit that centers on whether its commercial general liability insurance policy covers the company's installation of defective flanges at an ExxonMobil refinery processing unit.
6 minute read

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