Environmental Litigation News
May 18, 2012
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
May 18, 2012
With the clock winding down on an acrimonious legislative session, lawmakers appear to have settled on a new framework for environmental damage lawsuits that landowners file against energy companies that once leased their property.
May 17, 2012
Fox 8 News |
May 17, 2012
Aides to Governor Bobby Jindal say a compromise has been reached by the Department of Natural Resources, landowners, oil and gas industry representatives and key legislators involved in solving the legacy lawsuit issue.
May 16, 2012
The Hayride |
May 16, 2012
An investigative branch of the conservative national think tank the Heritage Foundation issued a damaging report this week – which was also picked up on Washington Times 24/7 – putting the national spotlight back on Louisiana’s legacy lawsuit crisis.
Daily Advertiser |
May 16, 2012
Unfortunately the recent editorial, "Dump both legacy lawsuit bills" (May 11), does not reflect the reality that if our state leaders fail to address the legacy lawsuit crisis this Legislative session, the environmental cleanup of damaged properties will continue to languish, as they have for years, while a small group of politically-connected plaintiffs' attorneys will continue to get rich off the current system.
Press-Register |
May 16, 2012
An $11.565 million settlement with BP for financial damages to Baldwin County will pay attorneys an estimated $1.397 million in fees with expenses continuing to add to the total until the deal is "consummated," officials said today.
Tags: Alabama, Environmental Litigation
May 15, 2012
American Lawyer |
May 15, 2012
Given U.S. District Judge Richard Kaplan's previous rulings in Chevron's racketeering case against plaintiffs lawyer Steven Donziger and others, it would have been a surprise if the judge granted a motion by Donziger's lawyers at Keker & Van Nest to dismiss the case outright. And indeed, on Monday Kaplan refused to throw out the case--though he did toss related claims of fraud and tortious interference.
Wall Street Journal |
May 15, 2012
A federal judge narrowed Chevron Corp.'s claims in its racketeering lawsuit against a lawyer involved in long-running environmental litigation against the company.
May 14, 2012
Wall Street Journal |
May 14, 2012
Chevron Corporation went to U.S. federal court in Miami on May 4 seeking the records of eight accounts at Banco Pichincha in Ecuador. The oil company maintains that these records could prove that an Ecuadorean geological engineer, who was hired by the court to be an independent expert in the case of Maria Aguinda y Otros vs. Chevron, was bribed by plaintiffs lawyers. Both the expert and the plaintiffs lawyers deny the charge.
May 4, 2012
Wall Street Journal |
May 4, 2012
A trial to apportion blame and damages for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster will now start in 2013 after the New Orleans judge hearing the case scheduled a new start date.
May 2, 2012
MarketWatch |
May 2, 2012
Approximately 11,000 villagers from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have filed suit in a U.K. court against Royal Dutch Shell PLC over oil spills they claim have caused severe damage to the local environment, according to reports Friday.
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