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National Law Journal

Court Cites 'Hobby Lobby' in Fight over Eagle Feathers

A federal appeals court on Wednesday invoked the U.S. Supreme Court's June Hobby Lobby decision in a long-running legal battle over the possession of bald eagle feathers by members of an Indian tribe that is not federally recognized.
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The Recorder

United States v. Lummi Nations

By | August 19, 2014
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

McCullough-Frantz v. Consol Pa. Coal Co., PICS Case No. 14-1256 (Pa. Super. Aug. 6, 2014) (memorandum) Olson, J. (28 pages).

By | August 19, 2014
Coal Mining Rights • Tax Sales • Notice
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pipeline Operators: Public Utility or Pipeline Futility?

The meteoric development of the Marcellus Shale is staggering. Since 2004, nearly 7,800 unconventional gas wells have been drilled throughout Pennsylvania. One of the stark realities of this unprecedented growth is that pipeline capacity has not kept pace. There are more active wells than active pipelines.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Servs. Corp. v. Texas Eastern Transmission, PICS Case No. 14-1220 (Pa. Super. July 29, 2014) Musmanno, J. (26 pages).

By | August 12, 2014
Estates in Land • Mineral Estate • Surface Estate • Servitude of Sufficient Support • Waiver
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Kenedy Ranch Rights Earned in 1960s as Fee Now at Stake in Lawyer's Family Feud

"The underlying case has to do with a partnership. There are a lot of parties. Who owns what in that partnership is the underlying case," said Alberto Alarcon, who represents a centenarian lawyer, his wife and a partnership.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Kenedy Ranch Rights Earned in 1960s as Fee Now at Stake in Lawyer's Family Feud

"The underlying case has to do with a partnership. There are a lot of parties. Who owns what in that partnership is the underlying case," said Alberto Alarcon, who represents a centenarian lawyer, his wife and a partnership.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Defending Strategic Energy Policy: The Case Against Municipal Activism

An undeniable trend has emerged in recent months. Courts in various states are upholding local authority to limit natural gas development pursuant to zoning or home rule provisions. Many municipalities in states like Pennsylvania and New York have sought permanent bans or temporary moratoria on hydraulic fracturing. These efforts at the local level are fueled by a combination of political grandstanding and pandering combined with the "not in my backyard," or NIMBY, syndrome. As to the former, it's a variation on the old saw about immigration: "I'm in favor of immigration, except for any which happens after I got here." The mayor of Princeton, N.J., provides a recent example of the NIMBY syndrome. There, the mayor of the town, in which for physical and geological reasons there would never be fracturing, has taken up the battle to "ban fracking" in Princeton. Obviously, the ban is without real meaning given the geology.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Federal Court Seeks State Guidance on Fracking Issues

Calling hydrofracking a matter of "potentially great commercial and environmental significance" in New York, the Second Circuit asked the state's highest tribunal for guidance Thursday on interpreting oil and gas leases.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Meet the GC: Meredith Lackey of Colonial Pipeline Company

Meredith Lackey was appointed vice president and general counsel of Colonial Pipeline Company in January 2012.
7 minute read

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