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Justice Ketchum: This appeal concerns a voluntary pooling and unitization lease provision regarding horizontal drilling and production of oil and gas from the Marcellus Shale Formation. The lessor is PPG Industries, Inc., (“PPG”) and the lessee is Gastar Exploration USA, Inc., aka Gastar Exploration, Inc., (“Gastar”). The lease covered 3,285.6874 acres in Marshall County, and 70

861 N.E.2d 1102 (2007) 308 Ill.Dec. 537 Timothy JOYCE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jay J. MASTRI, Jay's HVAC, Inc., an Illinois Corporation, and Madison Services, Inc., a Mississippi Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. No. 1-06-0086. Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division. January 11, 2007. *1103

Affirmed by published opinion. Senior Judge DAVIS wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge COGBURN joined. Judge FLOYD wrote a dissenting opinion. DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge: The federal removal statute immunizes from review — appellate or otherwise — any order remanding to state court a case removed to federal court, with an exception for certain civil rights cases or suits against federal officers. 28 U

DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge, dissenting: Every now and again, a case comes along that leaves the careful reader scratching her head in puzzlement. This is one of those cases. It could not be more clear that the author of the panel dissent, who now authors the majority for the en banc court, disagrees, and vigorously so, with the district court’s decision to remand this case to state court. That is not surpris

ROSLYNN R. MAUSKOPF, United States District Judge Sheila Mahon brings this action, styled as a "complaint for mandamus," seeking to compel the Government to take action on her immigration petition. Mahon also asks the Court to rule, pursuant to the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, that her permanent resi

NO. 07-07-0424-CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT AMARILLO PANEL E JUNE 4, 2008 ______________________________ WILLIAM EUGENE SPRINGER, M.D., LUBBOCK HEART HOSPITAL, CARDIOLOGISTS OF LUBBOCK, P.A., JOSE

NO. 07-07-0424-CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT AMARILLO PANEL E JUNE 4, 2008 ______________________________ WILLIAM EUGENE SPR

NO. 07-07-0424-CV IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT AMARILLO PANEL E JUNE 4, 2008 ______________________________ WILLIAM EUGENE SPRINGER, M.D., LUBBOCK HEART HOSPITAL, CARDIOLOGISTS OF LUBBOCK, P.A., JOSEPH A. RIZZO, M.D.

*904On September 5, 2008, an Essex county grand jury returned an indictment charging the defendant with distribution of cocaine, second or subsequent offense, in violation of G. L. c. 94C, § 32A(b). A separate indictment charging the same was issued on September 24, 2008. The two offenses were joined, and the defendant’s trial began on November 30, 2009. On December 3, 2009, following a th

Brown, J. The court is asked to apply a novel approach to the doctrine of assumption of risk in a case involving an exculpatory clause in an agreement for the purchase and adjustment of ski equipment. Well-established law supports the trial court’s decision. We affirm. FACTS Joyce Johnson purchased ski boots from Wintersport Ski & Spa. Wintersport adjusted Ms. Johnson’s ski bindings for

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 14-1316 FRANCISCO ABRIL-RIVERA, ET AL., Plaintiffs, Appellants, and MADELINE AGUAYO, ET AL., Plaintiffs, v. JEH JOHNSON, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; FEDERAL EMERGENCY

United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 14-1316 FRANCISCO ABRIL-RIVERA, ET AL., Plaintiffs, Appellants, and MADELINE AGUAYO, ET AL., Plaintiffs, v. JEH JOHNSON, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; FEDERAL EMERGENCY

637 S.E.2d 775 (2006) JOHNSON v. The STATE. No. A06A1631. Court of Appeals of Georgia. October 20, 2006. Joyce A. Bussey, Assistant Public Defender, Thomaston, for appellant. Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Josh W. Thacker, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin Judicial Circuit, for appellee. JOHNSON, Presiding Judge. A jury found James Chad

GEE, Circuit Judge: In this case we are called upon to determine what process is due a county official whose salary is withheld to offset alleged insufficiencies in the fees of office he deposited with the county. The plaintiff, L.E. Eguia, a former Justice of the Peace in Fort Bend County, Texas, sued the county and various count

FILED United States Court of Appeals PUBLISH Tenth Circuit UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS April 11, 2014 Elisabeth A. Shumaker FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT Clerk of Court VICKIE SCHMIDT PARSON; PATRICIA SCALES;

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 324 OPINION This appeal involves the statutory construction of the term "physician" as used in Chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, specifically § 74.351(r)(5)(C), as it pertains to the qualifications of an "expert" for purposes of an expert report on the i

ROBB, Circuit Judge: The appellant Hall, referred to here as the defendant, was indicted for possession of a controlled substance, 61 tablets of phenmetrazine (also known as preludin), with the intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a). Her motion to suppress evidence — the 61 tablets— was heard and denied. Trial by jury resulted in a verdict of guilty and she was sentenced to imprisonment for five years pursuant

JUSTICE BOWMAN, dissenting: I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority opinion which concludes that there exists sufficient corroborating evidence of defendant’s “unlawful purpose” to sustain the trial court’s guilty verdict. The majority states that “[t]he totality of the circumstance

MURPHY, Circuit Judge. On behalf of an asserted class Joyce Johnson, a citizen of Missouri, brought this action in state court against gasoline station operators MFA Petroleum, Casey’s General Stores, and QuikTrip Corporation (the operators) under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (the state act), Mo.Rev.Stat. § 407.020, alleging the defendants misrepresent the grade of gas pumped at their stations. Casey’s General St

569 N.E.2d 1189 (1991) 210 Ill. App.3d 1059 155 Ill.Dec. 578 The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Michael S. JOYCE, Defendant-Appellant. No. 2-89-0139. Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District. March 28, 1991. Rehearing Denied May 6, 1991. *1191<