Case Overview

Craig and his team, including Shelley Glazer, obtained summary judgment rulings in favor of the Chesapeake defendants concerning Plaintiffs’ contractual claims, damage claims for attorneys’ fees, check stub fraud, punitive damages, alleged violations of the Texas Natural Resources Code, torts under the economic loss rule, and alleged hedging transactions. They reached a full settlement agreement in one of the MDLs and handled each of the other MDL cases and the federal court cases on a case-by-case basis. The Chesapeake defendants won the first state case that was tried in January of 2020. Craig and his team were also successful in dismissing the purported federal class action cases. *VKHH attorneys Craig Haynes and Shelley Glazer were at a prior firm during these matters. 

Challenges

Prior to Craig’s involvement, the cases were filed in Courts throughout Texas. Through extensive case management orders in the MDLs, Craig was able to bring order to the voluminous litigation for his clients. Craig successfully accomplished the transfer of all the state cases into the two MDLs to coordinate master and case-specific discovery, expert discovery, pretrial motions, and trial scheduling.