Ian Cooper and John Reynolds won an appeal for ConocoPhillips in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on September 15, 2015. Ian and John sought reversal of a class certification order entered by the district court in a case involving environmental contamination and alleged property damage. In a unanimous opinion, the
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Ian Cooper and John Reynolds won summary judgment in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois in Erlandson v. ConocoPhillips. The plaintiff claimed that he and other members of a putative class were not paid “retention bonuses” plaintiff valued in the millions of dollars following the merger between ConocoPhillips and Burlington
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John Reynolds and Robert Jackstadt successfully completed a two-week trial in Madison County, Illinois and secured a verdict of approximately $4.7 million dollars on behalf of the firm’s clients. At issue in the trial was whether the defendants’ horizontal directional drilling operations near the Wood River Refinery in Hartford, Illinois had damaged an underground sewer
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Tueth Keeney attorneys Robert Jackstadt and John Reynolds recently obtained the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against a Kansas City area school district. The Plaintiff in the lawsuit, a construction company, alleged that the school district had failed to fully pay Plaintiff for work performed. The lawsuit had been pending against the District for several
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