Articles

Featured Or Quoted In:

• “Mineral Park mine files for bankruptcy protection”, Kingman Daily Miner (Sept. 5, 2014)

• K. Dix, “Council Agrees to Sewer Rate Deal”, The Daily Local (Oct. 20, 2010)

• K. Dix, “New Vote Coming”, The Daily Local (Oct. 18, 2010)

• K. Dix, “Deal May Go Forward”, The Daily Local (Oct. 13, 2010)

• “BAPCPA’S Changes to the Automatic Stay: The 2005 Amendments and Court Decisions”, Practicing Law Institute (April 2008), at 48, 49 )

• T. Sigafoos, “Eye On Gilbert Hamberg”, Bucks County Courier Times (Dec. 8, 1997)

• E. Fisher, “Peco Zaps Texas Power Provider”, Bucks County Courier Times (Oct. 12, 1997), at 9C & 11C

• J.A. Beecher, “Water Affordability”, Journal of American Waterworks Association (Oct. 1994), at 61-62 & 72

• “Utilities Can Reduce Bad Debt Expenses”, Edison Electric Institute, Division Diary (June 1994), at 13

• P. Van Nolan, “Disposition of Utility Real Property”, Public Utilities Fortnightly (July 7, 1983) 50

• A. King, “Only Two Citizens Show”, Standard Observer (July 24, 1980), at 1 & 6

• E. Chute & J.E. Rosenberger, “Power Needs”, Pittsburgh Press (July 9/10, 1980), at A-2

• M. Townsend, “Settlement Near”, Legal Vindicator (May 7/21, 1980)

• M. Townsend, “No Settlement Seen in Rates”, Legal Vindicator (April 2, 1980), at 1-2

• “PUC Hearing Fruitful”, Citizens Voice (March 21, 1980), at 37

• D. Kushma, “Water Rate Rise Disputed”, Philadelphia Bulletin (Jan. 15, 1980), at 15 A

• B. Warner, “Utility Customers Lose”, Philadelphia Daily News (Dec. 11, 1979), at 6

• “Dr. Schooley Testifies”, Citizens Voice (Nov. 15, 1979)

• J. Golightly, “Students at PUC Hearing”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 28, 1978), at 15

• “Ailing Gas Co.”, Weekly Recorder (Feb. 13, 1978), at 1 & 18

Published Bankruptcy/ Utility Articles:

Author

• “Strategies to Reduce Pre-Petition Losses”, American Public Gas Ass’n, The Source  (Spring, 2021)

• “Offering Payment Options to Customers”, NMPP Energy, Essent 4 (Feb. 2014)

• “Federal Courts Conflict Whether Electricity is a Goods”, Energy Central, Energy Pulse (Jan. 24, 2014)

• “Strategies can Protect Utilities from Unpaid Bills”, NMPP Energy, Essent 4 (Jan. 2014)

• “Letter to the Editor”, Public Power Daily, (Oct. 5, 2012)

• “Protecting Your Utility When a Customer Files for Bankruptcy”, 69 Public Power (June 2011)

• “Practice Pointers: Serving a Bankrupt Member”, Nat’l Rural Electric Coop. Ass’n, 45 Legal Rep. Serv. 3 (June 2009)

• “Bankruptcy Court Recognizes Doctrine of Reverse Preemption”, 4 Am. Bankr. Inst. Health Care Comm. Newsletter (Aug. 2007)

• “New Section 366(c) of the Bankruptcy Code: Safeguard for utilities that use its protections”, Am. Bar Ass’n, 45 Infrastructure 6 (Summer 2006)

• “New Section 366 of the Bankruptcy Code”, Nat’l Rural Electric Coop. Ass’n, 41 Legal Rep. Serv. 1 (July 2005)

• “Electric Utilities Utilize Demand Side Management”, Legal Intelligencer 9 (March 16, 2005)

• “Be Careful What You Ask For”, PA Law Weekly 8 (Jan. 19, 2004)

• “First Day Utility Motions Suffer Procedural Deficiencies”, 19 Bankruptcy Strategist 4 (Jan. 2002)

• “Responding To Section 366 Motions”, Nat’l Rural Electric Coop. Ass’n, 37 Legal Rep. Service 1 (Nov. 2001)

• “Adversary Proceeding Needed To Stop Service Cutoff”, Legal Intelligencer 5 (Aug. 5, 2001)

• “Commonwealth Court Upholds PUC”, Legal Intelligencer 7 (Jan. 9, 2001)

• “PUC Waffles Over Tariffs Limiting Liability For Service Interruptions”, Legal Intelligencer 11 (June 7, 1999)

• “2nd Circuit Allows N.Y. Utility To Recoup Pre-Petition Bills”, Legal Intelligencer 7 (Jan. 7, 1998)

• “Owner Liable For Municipal Water Bill For Service to Tenant-Occupied Units”, Legal Intelligencer 7 (May 7, 1997)

• “Court Decisions Conflict Over Who Pays To Repair Railroad Bridges”, Legal Intelligencer 9 (Dec. 4, 1996)

• “Commonwealth Court Upholds PUC In ‘Most Favorable Rate’ Case”, Legal Intelligencer 5 (Aug. 22, 1996)

• “Override Revenues Belong To Residential Customers”, Legal Intelligencer 7 (June 10, 1996)

• “Court’s Discretionary Powers Limited”, Legal Intelligencer 9 (May 1, 1996)

• “PUC’s Decision On LIHEAP Benefits Reversed”, Legal Intelligencer 9 (Jan. 19, 1996)

• “Rooming House Tenants Have Utility Rights Too”, Legal Intelligencer 7 (Oct. 12, 1995)

• “Rules Are Rules For Players, Umps Alike”, Legal Intelligencer 9 (Sept. 20, 1995)

• “Court Disregards Privity Of Contract”, Legal Intelligencer 7 (Aug. 17, 1995)

• “Reducing Bad-Debt Expenses”, 87 J. Am. Waterworks Ass’n. 101 (April 1995)

• “When A Contract Is Not A Contract”, Legal Intelligencer 9 (Jan. 18, 1995)

• “Water, Sewer Utilities Come Under Scrutiny”, Legal Intelligencer 13 (Oct. 17, 1994)

• “Court Scrutinizes Electric Utilities”, Legal Intelligencer 11 (Sept. 6, 1994)

• “Primer to Reduce Bad Debt Expenses”, PA Municipal Authorities Ass’n, The Authority 16 (Feb. 1994)

• “Water/Sewer Utilities as Candy Shoppes”, NY Rural Water Ass’n, Aquafacts 8 (Winter/1993-94)

• “Keeping PRP’s Out of Bankruptcy Courts”, 42 J. Air Waste Manage. Ass’n. 259 (March 1992)

• “The Power Of A Bankruptcy Court To Set Public Utility Rates”, Electricity Journal 50 (Jan./Feb. 1992)

• “Are Bankruptcy Courts Observing State Laws?”, Credit World 35 (July/Aug. 1991)

• “Gain On Disposition Of Utility Land Is Other Income”, Public Utilities Fortnightly 41 (Aug. 13, 1981)

Co-Author

• PA Bar Institute, “Municipal Law Colloquium: Turning Municipal Claims Into Dollars” (1997 ed.)

• LA Bar Ass’n, “Recent Developments In the Law: Bankruptcy Chapters” (1989 ed. & 1990 ed.)

• PA Public Utility Commission, “Statutory Jurisdiction of PA Pubic Utility Commission” (March 1978)

Other

• “New Section 366(c) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code: Panacea For Natural Gas Utilities Who Utilize Its Protections?”; presented on July 17, 2006 to Am. Gas Ass’n Legal Forum in Seattle, Washington