August 15, 2016
The state of Pennsylvania's suit accusing natural gas drillers Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. of shorting landowners on royalty payments on Monday was kicked down to state court by a federal judge, who agreed with the state that the allegations do not invoke federal court jurisdiction.
July 18, 2016
A state court should hear allegations that natural gas drillers Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. shorted landowners on royalty payments, Pennsylvania argued Monday, saying just because its suit mentions the Sherman Act does not mean there is a federal question.
June 17, 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio will have to answer questions about how the script for "Wolf of Wall Street" was developed in an attorney's $50 million defamation suit over the film, despite the actor's lawyers' objections that he neither wrote nor directed it, a New York judge ordered Thursday.
June 17, 2016
Pennsylvania prosecutors argued that a "glancing reference" to antitrust violations in a lawsuit accusing natural gas drillers Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. of shorting landowners on royalty payments did not mean the case belonged in federal court.
May 31, 2016
Natural gas drillers Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said Friday that a suit by the Pennsylvania attorney general accusing them of shorting landowners on royalty payments belongs in federal court now that it has been amended to include antitrust claims.