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Frack supplier hit with overtime class action

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

Last week, a hydraulic fracturing equipment supplier was hit with a putative class action lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania, alleging

Court order: you shall not start your new job at that oil company because we're worried about irreparable harm to the oil company you just quit

  • Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 13 2013

Engineer Milos Milosevic may have thought that he and Schlumberger Technology Corporation were like oil and water when he recently left Schlumberger

MSHA inspection failures may spur increases to inspection activities

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 12 2013

Two recent news items shine a spotlight on MSHA, its inspection corps, and several publicly acknowledged inspection failures. On February 5, 2013

Texas indemnity and express negligence

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2013

A recent Texas Court of Appeals decision (Tutle & Tutle Trucking v. EOG Resources, Inc., Waco Court of Appeals 2012) illustrates the importance of

End of temporary reinstatement - that was not temporary

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 27 2012

In Vulcan Construction Materials v. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals eliminated a grossly unfair burden from Vulcan and many other companies

MSHA

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 20 2012

In a highly-anticipated decision involving two sets of consolidated contest proceedings, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission has affirmed a May 2011 ALJ order that upheld a broad interpretation of MSHA’s authority to compel a mine operator to produce documents and information during an MSHA inspection

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Employer entitled to hearing on temporary reinstatement

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 8 2012

Summary decision is not a substitute for a hearing in a temporary reinstatement case where the responding party requests a hearing

Hydraulic fracturing: a future source of silicosis claims?

  • Sedgwick LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2012

In April 2012, Eric Esswein, an industrial hygienist from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, made a statement at a conference sponsored by the Institute of Medicine that was guaranteed to attract the attention of plaintiffs' attorneys looking for a new source for silicosis lawsuits

Second ALJ dismisses late-filed penalty petition

  • Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 21 2012

Administrative Law Judge Susan Biro joined Administrative Law Judge Thomas McCarthy in dismissing a penalty petition because the Secretary of Labor failed to file the petition within 45 days of a timely contest of a proposed penalty assessment

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