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Dallas Law Firms Face Off in $33M Breach-of-Contract Case Over Pipeline Explosion Near Pittsburgh

BEAVER, PA – A breach-of-contract bench trial that began Monday related to a massive pipeline explosion near Pittsburgh pits Dallas law firms Reese Marketos and Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann against one another. 

Cardinal Midstream II LLC, represented by Reese Marketos, is asking Beaver County Court of Common Pleas Judge James J. Ross to award it $33 million in damages it alleges Energy Transfer and its affiliate ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC owe for the incident

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