As published on Legal Newsline: NEW YORK, Dec. 9 – The flagship lawsuit of the #ExxonKnew climate litigation campaign was sent to the bottom today after a New York judge rejected all claims brought by the office of Attorney General Letitia James, including fraud charges the state’s lawyers unexpectedly dropped Read more…
The lawsuit by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey accuses ExxonMobil of making public statements that undercut the consensus scientific view on global warming.
Legal Newsline, April 15, 2019: A Washington appeals court’s decision to overturn the conviction of a man who claims he had no choice but to break into a pipeline facility to save the planet from global warming represents the most important endorsement yet of a legal strategy that once was Read more…
My latest Legal Newsline story on Forbes.com: The cities of Oakland and San Francisco have replaced the private lawyers representing them in climate change litigation as a series of lawsuits against ExxonMobil, Shell and other oil companies head toward what could be their final challenges in appeals courts on either Read more…
My latest Legal Newsline story on Forbes.com: Boulder, Colo., officials described it as a can’t-lose proposition when they voted to sue ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy for their alleged role in causing climate change. But now that federal judges on either coast have dismissed two of the most prominent climate lawsuits Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – The private lawyers who engineered the latest round of municipal lawsuits over climate change hoped they’d found a path through the thicket of precedents blocking their way by suing oil companies for selling hydrocarbons instead of burning them and by citing state instead of federal Read more…
A clearly skeptical federal judge questioned the basic premise behind New York City’s lawsuit against five of the world’s biggest oil companies over climate change on Wednesday, asking whether the city was simply rehashing failed earlier attempts to sue companies over their emissions. New York, represented by private lawyers who Read more…