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Fifth Circuit reverses Comer, joins Second Circuit in approving tort-based climate litigation
In a long-awaited appellate decision in Comer v Murphy Oil, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday found that tort-based global warming litigation against insurance, oil, coal and chemical companies presents justiciable claims. The Fifth...
Kivalina global warming litigation dismissed on political question grounds
In a carefully watched case in the Northern District of California, Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong has issued a ruling dismissing the Kivalina climate change lawsuit on grounds that: (1) it raises a non-justiciable political question, and (2) plaintiffs lack Article...
Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald recently published an interview with Gerald Maples, the lead plaintiff’s attorney in Comer v. Murphy Oil. In Comer, fourteen individuals filed a class action lawsuit against insurance, oil, coal and chemical companies seeking relief for property...
On Friday, June 19, the California Attorney General’s Office voluntarily dropped its appeal to the Ninth Circuit in California v. General Motors Corp. to review the lower court’s dismissal of the state’s public nuisance lawsuit against six major automobile companies....
Sotomayor climate change case just one of three stalled global warming appeals
In January we commented on three pending appeals with significant implications for tort-based climate litigation. In Friday’s National Law Journal, Marcia Coyle notes that Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor is the presiding judge on the Second Circuit panel that heard...
Appeals pending for public nuisance climate change litigation
Appeals are pending in three cases with significant implications for tort-based climate litigation. Connecticut v. American Electric Power Company, Inc.; Comer v. Murphy Oil Co.; and California v. General Motors Corp. – all dismissed in district court on political question...
