I often wonder if anybody actually reads our modest, quasi-weekly offerings. They do! And they respond! To criticize! I earn my keep being “critiqued” by impatient judges, aggressive opposing counsel and, occasionally, less-than-happy clients, so – challenge accepted.
“Critique” One:
Lipsky was not Range’s lessor, therefor I know nothing about the case. Surely, this person
May a court “draw rational inferences from circumstantial evidence” when determining if a plaintiff has met its burden in a suit in which the defendant has invoked the Texas Citizens Participation Act . That was the question in In re Lipsky.
What is The Anti-SLAPP Statute?
The
Allen Gilmer of DrillingInfo.com warns us about a threat to the nation’s health and safety that makes hydraulic fracturing look like a kindergarten cupcake party (if there were still such a thing). What’s worse is this scourge is not limited to communities where there is oil and gas production. The young seem to be most
Who should decide when, where, how, and even if, hydraulic fracturing should occur?
The locals: “You hypocrites Our good public servants in Austin want ‘local control’ when its against Washington, but deny us the same right. We know better than you about what’s best for our community. To hell with catastrophic litigation exposure and
The box scores after election day showed frackers 4, anti’s 4. Courtesy of a gubernatorial grand-slam by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, hydraulic fracturing is now banned throughout the entire state of New York.
In this ballgame within a ballgame, it’s
Yoko and Shawn, the likes of Moveon.org , and wealthy Manhattanites: 1
Mineral owners, asthmatics
Hydraulic fracturing bans had eight at-bats last Tuesday. Here are the results.
Denton, Texas
See the Ballot Question in a recent entry.
YES 58.64%
NO 41.36%
Athens, Ohio
“To establish a community bill of rights for residents and natural communities of Athens and to protect those rights by prohibiting shale gas and oil extraction and
As you probably know, the Denton City Council denied a petition signed by several thousand citizens to ban hydraulic fracturing within the city limits. The denial sent the question to the November 4 general election ballot. Here is the proposition, its legalese in full bloom:
SHALL AN ORDINANCE BE ENACTED PROHIBITING, WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS
“What is it like to live inside your head with Peter Pan and the Easter Bunny?” So asks the sister in “Bridges of Madison County” after the brother wonders if the Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood characters had sex all those years ago.
And so it is from certain quarters in the hydraulic fracking debate
Co-author Sandra MazanIn Powder River Basin Resource Council v. Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the Wyoming Supreme Court held that the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has the burden of justifying the use of trade secrets exemption from revealing the contents of hydraulic fracturing chemicals. The court also required the WOGCC,
WHAT IS IT, FRACING OR FRACKING?
Having gone back-and-forth over how to spell the process, I’ve figured it out.
Why it is “Fracing”: