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Fourth Circuit Restores Bankruptcy Safe Harbor Protections for Natural Gas Supply Contracts that Are "Commodity Forward Agreements"
Dickson C. Chin, Benjamin Rosenblum, James E. Vallee, March 12, 2009
In reversing and remanding a Bankruptcy Court ruling that raised concerns among participants in the natural gas markets, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Hutson v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (In re National Gas Distributors, LLC), No. 07-2105, 2009 WL 325436 (4th Cir. Feb. 11, 2009)...

SEC Modernizes Requirements for Reporting Oil and Gas Reserves
Shahid A. Ghauri, J. Mark Metts, Jeffrey A. Schlegel, Kathleen Ryan McLaurin, Angela Olivarez, Julie Gremillion, February 26, 2009
On December 29, 2008, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") issued a final rule adopting amendments to its oil and gas reporting requirements, which exist in their current form in Regulation S-K and Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933 and the...

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