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Daily Business Review

FPL Must Pay $1.5M For Breaking Handshake Real Estate Commission Deal, Jury Finds

Florida Power & Light bought two parcels of a ranch without paying a promised commission to a real estate agent, the jury ruled.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Justices Won't Disturb Courts' Alternative Energy Act Jurisdiction

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will not review a divided en banc Commonwealth Court's ruling that state courts have jurisdiction over disputes arising under the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act.
10 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Kirkland, Gibson Dunn and Cravath Advise on $9B Oncor-Berkshire Hathaway Deal

Berkshire Hathaway Energy has agreed to acquire Energy Future Holdings Corp. in $9 billion deal that will give it control of Oncor, Texas' largest public utility.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Houston IP Litigator Leaves McDermott, Joins Baker & Hostetler

Steven Spears, who was head of the McDermott, Will & Emery office in Houston, moved to Baker & Hostetler's much larger Houston office.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Billionaire George Lindemann Sells Palm Beach Estate

The natural gas pipeline executive gets $24 million for the oceanfront estate.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Sidley Strengthens Energy Practice With Hire of Two Partners in Houston

David Asmus and Brian Bradshaw have moved to Sidley Austin's Houston office from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers Turn Out the Lights on Power Co-op Suits After Appellate Ruling

When attorneys sued Georgia's electric power cooperatives on behalf of millions of current and former power customer members, they claimed the cooperatives, known as electric membership corporations, for decades had withheld as much as $2 billion in profits that should have, by law, been distributed regularly to their members.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Hildebrand v. EQT Prod. Co., PICS Case No. 17-0979 (Pa. Super. June 8, 2017) Stabile, J. (14 pages).

Trial court erred in denying appellants' motion for summary judgment, in their declaratory judgment action over royalty payments, because court erroneously interpreted the lesser interest clause included solely in appellants' modification of the original 1928 oil and gas lease. Reversed.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

United Refining Co. v. Dep't of Envtl. Protection, PICS Case No. 17-0986 (Pa. Commw. June 12, 2017) Brobson, J. (24 pages).

Board properly held that petitioner failed to establish that department's issuance of a permit for a well to be drilled on a slant with the bottom under a refinery storage tank was unreasonable or contrary to law because the board correctly applied the burden of proof, credible expert evidence supported the decision and Pennsylvania courts had held that hydraulic fracturing was not an abnormally dangerous activity. Affirmed.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

HIKO Energy, LLC v. Pa. Pub. Util. Comm'n, PICS Case No. 17-0978 (Pa. Commw. June 8, 2017) Simpson, J. (89 pages).

PUC properly imposed a civil penalty on petitioner alternative energy supplier for its intentional overbilling of 5,000 customers for four months and properly calculated the penalty on a "per invoice" method because the penalty was not disproportionate due to the intentional conduct by petitioner's executives, petitioner did not mitigate and only made refunds to customers who complained and PUC properly applied the factors in determining the penalty. Affirmed.
7 minute read

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