Pennsylvan I a - Oil & Gas

摘要

Silence Regarding Class Arbitration Indicates a Prohibition The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania considered the scope of class arbitration in Abrams v. Chesapeake Energy Corp., No. 4:16-cv-01343, 2017 WL 6541511 (M.D. Pa. Dec. 21, 2017). Before the court were the plaintiffs' motions to compel class arbitration in four unconsolidated actions. Finding the arbitration clauses in the subject leases unambiguous, the court dismissed the actions brought by the plaintiffs with arbitration provisions, but did not require class arbitration. The court held further that those plaintiffs that did not have an arbitration provision in their leases could proceed in federal court.