August 10, 2018
Chesapeake Energy Inc. has reached a tentative $7.75 million settlement in two proposed class action suits over allegedly inflated costs and fees deducted from leaseholders' gas royalty payments, according to filings in Pennsylvania federal court Thursday.
May 10, 2016
Chesapeake Energy Corp. continued its fight in Pennsylvania federal court Monday to pause a pair of 2-year-old landowner class actions over natural gas royalty payments, saying a pending suit brought by Pennsylvania's attorney general over drilling leases involves all of the same parties.
April 22, 2016
A suit that Pennsylvania's attorney general is pursuing against Chesapeake Energy Corp. over allegedly shoddy deals it struck to lease property for drilling cannot be used to delay a pair of 2-year-old class actions filed by landowners claiming they were shortchanged on royalty payments, a federal judge was told in a brief Friday.
June 23, 2014
A Pennsylvania business launched a sprawling class action against Chesapeake Energy Corp. and its subsidiaries on Friday, joining other lawsuits across the country filed by property owners who claim the company shorted them on royalty payments through an almost $5 billion scheme with natural gas service company Access Midstream.