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Award for Nuisance From Gas Wells Squelched

By Charles Sartain on February 14, 2017
Posted in operations, Pollution

bad-dayIt was a bad day for the Parrs in Aruba Petroleum v. Parr. The trial court judgment was against the operator for intentional nuisance. The Parrs recovered $2.9 million for pain and suffering and mental anguish and for loss of market value of their home caused by Aruba’s gas wells in Wise County, Texas. (See…

Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Nuisance Law

By Charles Sartain on July 13, 2016
Posted in Litigation

nuisanceGardiner v. Crosstex North Texas Pipeline LLC, has brought clarity to Texas nuisance law. It took the Texas Supreme Court 54 pages; we have it in under 600 words. (We explained the lower court case here.)

  • “Nuisance” now refers, not to a defendant’s conduct or a legal claim or cause of action, but to

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