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Nolen Scott Ely, et al v. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation and Gassearch Drilling Services Corproation
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March 31, 2017
New Trial Ordered Over Bad Evidence In Cabot Fracking Case
Last year's upset trial victory by a solo practitioner facing off against megafirm Norton Rose Fulbright in a yearslong groundwater contamination suit may have been too good to be true after all, with a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday vacating the jury's $4 million award against Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. and ordering a new trial for lack of evidence and improper courtroom tactics.
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August 10, 2016
Pa. Families Defend $4M Cabot Fracking Verdict
Two Pennsylvania families who won $4 million over contaminated groundwater allegedly caused by a Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. fracking operation on Tuesday fought back against the company's assertions that the verdict relied on shoddy evidence.
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July 21, 2016
Cabot Says It Was Dinged $4M For Pre-Existing Pollution
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. is not backing down from its fight for a new trial after two Pennsylvania families won $4 million over contaminated groundwater near the company's Susquehanna County fracking operations, telling a federal court Wednesday the verdict was reached on shoddy evidence.
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June 14, 2016
Cabot Oil Can't Nix $4M Pollution Verdict, Pa. Families Say
Two Pennsylvania families who say Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.'s natural gas drilling in Susquehanna County contaminated their groundwater blasted the company's efforts to overturn a $4.2 million federal jury verdict in their favor on Monday, the latest chapter in a six-year legal saga that is now punctuated by lawyer-on-lawyer barbs.
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April 26, 2016
Cabot Rips Lawyer In Bid To Toss $4.2M Fracking Verdict
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. on Monday backed up its bid to overturn a $4.24 million jury verdict awarded to two families who blamed the company's natural gas drilling for contaminating their well water, with a 142-page brief attacking the conduct of the plaintiffs' lawyer and the evidence weighed by the jury.
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April 08, 2016
Cabot Wants $4.2M Pa. Fracking Verdict Overturned
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. on Thursday asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to overturn a $4.24 million jury verdict awarded to two families who blamed the company's natural gas drilling for contaminating their well water, saying the ruling was unsupported by evidence.
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March 11, 2016
$4M Fracking Verdict Unlikely To Spawn Many Copycat Cases
A Pennsylvania federal jury's Thursday award of $4.24 million to two families who claimed that natural gas drilling contaminated their water supply will get attention, especially as their hometown was the star of a widely viewed anti-fracking documentary, but lawyers doubt the case will inspire a surge of copycat claims.
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March 10, 2016
Pa. Families Win $4.24M Verdict In Cabot Fracking Trial
A Pennsylvania federal jury on Thursday awarded $4.24 million to two families who said that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.'s natural gas drilling contaminated their well water, after the conclusion of a trial that lasted over two weeks.
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February 24, 2016
Fracking Judge Sees 'No Basis' To Allow Banned Evidence
A Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge refused Wednesday to reconsider his ruling excluding landowners from using eleventh-hour exhibits introduced on the eve of trial in their long-running environmental contamination suit against Cabot, finding that despite claims of hardship, the evidence would nevertheless be "extraordinarily prejudicial."
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February 12, 2016
Fracking Judge Explodes At 'Sad, Shocking' Evidence Dump
A Pennsylvania magistrate judge on Friday blasted plaintiffs who unleashed a flood of late and disorganized exhibits on the eve of trial in their long-running environmental contamination suit against Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., calling the move "a sad and shocking spectacle, a debacle and dilemma."