- Lithuania - New Law on Restructuring of Enterprises Comes Into Force as of 1 October 2010
- Lithuania | 09/03/2010
- Legal Writing Advice: Go Ahead, Split Your Infinitives
- United States | 09/03/2010
- Latvia - New Insolvency Law Will Come into Force on 1 November 2010
- Latvia | 09/03/2010
- Are Alternative Fees Fizzling? Bloggers Offer Contrarian View
- United States | 09/03/2010
- Estonia - New Provisions in the Income Tax Act
- Estonia | 09/03/2010
- A Cancellation by Harvard Prof Fuels Speculation on Consumer Post
- United States | 09/03/2010
- Lawyer’s Legal Fight with School Is ‘Cautionary Tale of the Internet Age’
- United States | 09/02/2010
- Merger control: Commission clears proposed acquisition of SEB German retail banking business by Banco Santander
- Finland | 09/02/2010
- Website Settles Infringement Case After Judge Rules for Copyright Troll
- United States | 09/02/2010
Legal Articles
- Wiggle Room for Local Regulation of Marcellus Gas Drilling, or Potentially Reversible Error?
- On July 22, 2010, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania decided Penneco Oil Company v. The County of Fayette, Pennsylvania, holding that a local "zoning" ordinance targeting natural gas drilling is not preempted by Pennsylvania's Oil and Gas Act. At first blush, the Commonwealth Court appears to have merely followed the lead of the recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions in Huntley & Huntley, Inc. v. Borough Council of the Borough of Oakmont and Range Resources v. Salem Township, decisions that respect local government authority to restrict, for aesthetic reasons, the locations where natural gas wells can be installed. On closer review, it appears that local governments have been given room, without definite boundaries, to restrict natural gas drilling as they deem necessary in order to "protect the public's health, safety and welfare." Penneco Oil centers on a challenge by Penneco Oil, Range Resources, and the Independent Oil & Gas Association of Pennsylvania to a 2006 Fayette County ordinance that regulates oil and gas well drilling.
United States | 08/11/2010
