Roger Chadderdon's firm, Cataphora, won a breach-of-contract case against a bunch of lawyers who had hired the firm to provide "litigation support".
The lawyers served on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in a massive case that the Judicial Panel on Multi-district Litigation sited in New Orleans. See In re Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liabiity Litig.
Oil and gas cases seem to supply more than their share of fights about the meaning of contract terms. Why? We suspect it has something to do with money.
Take Total E&P USA, Inc. v. Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corp., No. 11-30038 (5th Cir. Mar. 12, 2013). In that case, two of three lessees
Blawgletter had the pleasure of trying a case in Louisiana state court last year. The subject matter — a fight over oil and gas rights and 3D seismic data — fit well within our legal wheelhouse. But something made us feel like a fish out of water.
The law in the Pelican State, you see, gets
The Fifth Circuit ruled last week that the terms of an oil and gas lease could give a real estate firm the right to damages for drilling operations that hurt the firm's efforts to build and sell homes in a Shreveport subdivision. Greenwood 950, L.L.C. v. Chesapeake Louisiana, L.P., No. 11-30436 (5th Cir. June 12
May a working interest owner in an offshore oil and gas lease avoid paying a share of the cost of decommissioning a platform that the lessee used to produce from the lease? If you had a Farmout Agreement like the one between predecessors in interest — the PIIs — of Apache Corporation and W&T Offshore