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Third Circuit Issues Long-Awaited Ruling in OPA Liability Case

The Energy Law

On March 29, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its ruling in In re: Petition of Frescati Shipping Co., Procedural History The case was originally tried in a forty-one day bench trial by Judge John P. This raises a dire warning to defendants in cases involving subrogated claims.

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Ninth and Fifth Circuits Split on Issue of Punitive Damages Under Maritime Law

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23, 2018). Alleging that the lack of an exhaust mechanism made the vessel unseaworthy, the plaintiff sued the vessel owner for unseaworthiness, seeking punitive damages among other remedies. Dutra Group , No. 15-56775 (9th Cir.

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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Weighs in on Hydraulic Fracturing and Subsurface Trespass

The Energy Law

1] Prior to the Pennsylvania ruling, there were two seminal cases that have addressed the issue and reached conflicting results. The court found that an actionable trespass claim requires an injury and that the only claimed injury in this case—drainage of gas from beneath the plaintiff’s property—was barred by the rule of capture. [3]