NUISANCE CASES AGAINST ENERGY COMPANIES IN TEXAS, PENNSYLVANIA, AND OTHER AREAS WITH SIGNIFICANT OR DEVELOPING OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION STEPHEN C. DILLARD, LAUREN HUNT BROGDON, MICHAEL J. MAZZONE, AND MIKE D. STEWART† I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 448 II. HISTORY ......................................................................................... 450 III. MODERN PRIVATE NUISANCE ........................................................ 456 A. Elements of a Private Nuisance Case ..................................... 457 1. Standing ............................................................................ 457 2. Legal Injury ....................................................................... 458 3. Tortious Conduct............................................................... 460 4. Causation .......................................................................... 462 5. Actual Damages ................................................................ 466 B. Redefining Private Nuisance in Texas—Crosstex North Texas Pipeline v. Gardiner...................................................... 470 † Stephen C. Dillard and Lauren Hunt Brogdon are attorneys with Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP in Houston, Texas. Michael J. Mazzone and Mike D. Stewart are attorneys with Haynes and Boone, LLP in Houston, Texas. The authors have published this article in other forms with different journals and online sources, including the Texas Business Journal (Stephen C. Dillard et. al, Nuisance Cases Against Energy Companies in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Other Areas with Significant or Developing Oil and Gas Exploration, 47 TEX. J. BUS. L. (Spring 2018), https://www.texasbusinesslaw.org/resources/texas-business-law-journal/volume-47-issue-no-2spring-2018/nuisance-cases-against-energy-companies-in-texas-pennsylvania-and-other-areaswith-significant-or-developing-oil-and-gas-exploration [https://perma.cc/P8FV-JT9S]) and on each of the author’s firms’ websites (Michael J. Mazzone et. al, Nuisance Cases Against Energy Companies, HAYNES AND BOONE (Oct. 13, 2016), http://www.haynesboone.com//media/files/attorney-publications/nuisance-cases-against-energy-companies-mazzone-stewartdillard-brodgen.ashx?la=en&hash=C0BECA76672328C4B00D5BDD9BC725D34C7F012E [https://perma.cc/B7CZ-MVYS]; Stephen C. Dillard and Lauren Hunt Brogdon, Nuisance cases against energy companies in Texas, Pennsylvania, and other areas with significant or developing oil and gas exploration, NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT (May 2017), http://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/files/20161031-nuisance-cases-against-energy-companies-intexas-pennsylvania-and-other-areas-with-significant-or-developing-oil-and-gas-exploration143918.pdf [https://perma.cc/FJ4J-W2Z7]).
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