Updyke Mundy | PA Courts HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania almost unanimously sided with natural gas companies in finding that State Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office can’t target practices connected to the leasing of mineral rights, under the auspices of the Unfair Trade Practice and Consumer Protection Law. State Supreme Court justices issued the 6-1 ruling on March 24, in favor of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Chesapeake Energy Corporation, that the AG’s office cannot use the UTPCPL to take legal action on behalf of sellers against buyers. This action reversed the rulings of lower courts in Pennsylvania. Justices Sallie Updyke Mundy, Thomas G. Saylor, Debra Todd, Christine Donohue, David N. Wecht and Chief Justice Max Baer all voted in the affirmative, with Justice Kevin M. Dougherty casting the lone dissenting vote.