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  From Legal Newsline

  Billionaire mega-donor Steyer picks favorite AG hopefuls; More global warming cases possible

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  Democrat challengers aspiring to become the top lawyers in their states have received financial boosts from Tom Steyer, a billionaire investor and environmental activist who some feel is a driving force behind the recent string of climate change lawsuits struggling to persuade judges to punish the energy industry.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Boulder got things rolling, but momentum for suing Big Oil lacking in the rest of Colorado

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  The rest of Colorado seems to have little interest in following the lead of three communities in the state that have sued Big Oil over the alleged effects of global warming.

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  From Legal Newsline

  With two high-profile losses, when do climate plaintiffs start worrying about sanctions?

  By Dan Fisher | 1 year ago

  Now that federal judges on either coast have dismissed two of the most prominent climate lawsuits against the oil industry, risks to taxpayers may be going up.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Climate change roundup: NYC appeals loss, Big Oil attacks Wash. county’s lawsuit

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  New York City and the private lawyers it hired to sue the fossil fuel industry over alleged effects of climate change will not accept a federal judge’s recent decision to throw the lawsuit out of court.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Losing streak emerges as NYC, hired guns lose climate change case against Big Oil

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  Federal judges continue to reject the efforts of private lawyers who hold a financial stake in lawsuits brought by government officials against the oil industry over the alleged effects of climate change.

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  Chevron alleges 'criminal scheme' in $18 billion foreign arbitration award

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Chevron alleges they are the target of a "criminal scheme" over a deeded land controversy in Saudi Arabia. .

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  From Legal Newsline

  Others 0 for 2, but Rhode Island joining climate change litigation anyway

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  A judge on the other side of the country has ruled that it isn’t an issue for the courts, but that is not stopping Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, and the private lawyers he has hired, from suing the oil industry over alleged effects of climate change.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Rhode Island sues over climate change, using similar claims the state Supreme Court has already rejected

  By Daniel Fisher | 1 year ago

  R.I. AG Peter Kilmartin better hope Rhode Island courts import California’s concept of public nuisance law, since the last time a Rhode Island AG tried this tactic, over lead paint, the state Supreme Court rejected the claim entirely.

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  From Legal Newsline

  A closely watched climate case is dismissed; Will the others survive?

  By Dan Fisher | 1 year ago

  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 law.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Judge boots global warming cases of San Francisco, Oakland against oil industry

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  A California federal judge has rejected the efforts of municipal officials who teamed with private lawyers to seek to hold the energy industry liable for the alleged future effects of climate change.

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  From Legal Newsline

  'They're always wrong': NYC's hired guns cite overturned case as authority for climate change lawsuit

  By Daniel Fisher | 1 year ago

  It was a surprising opening move, to say the least. Arguing for the City of New York in its climate lawsuit against five major oil companies, attorney Michael Pawa cited AEP v. Connecticut, a 2009 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as “persuasive authority” in his clients’ favor.

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  From Legal Newsline

  NYC's climate change lawsuit faces scrutiny from judge during dismissal arguments

  By Daniel Fisher | 1 year ago

  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

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  From Legal Newsline

  States against climate change lawsuits ask for dismissal of NYC's

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – The top lawyers of 15 states are again asking a federal judge to reject the legal strategy used by public officials and the private attorneys with whom they’ve teamed to sue the energy industry over alleged effects of climate change.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Trump: Climate change lawsuits interfere with policy, should be dismissed

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – The Trump administration disapproves of climate change litigation initiated by cities and counties in California and the private attorneys they hired on a contingency fee.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Hagens Berman reduces fee for latest government client to sue over climate change

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  Hagens Berman reduces fee for latest government client to sue over climate change

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  From Legal Newsline

  Hold government to higher standard, former Calif. AG says of climate change lawsuit controversy

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – A Texas judge has decided California officials suing the energy industry over climate change are talking out of both sides of their mouths, and the former top lawyer of the Golden State is disappointed in their actions.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Judge: Calif. cities alleging doom in climate change lawsuits sold investors a different story

  By John O'Brien | 1 year ago

  FORT WORTH, Texas (Legal Newsline) – California officials who are suing large energy companies are telling two contradictory stories while taking part in a targeted effort featuring state attorneys general, private lawyers and Rockefeller money, a Texas judge has found.

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  From Legal Newsline

  As Boulder sues, 15 states - including Colorado - oppose global warming lawsuits

  By John O'Brien | 2 years ago

  SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) – Two days after local officials in the Boulder, Colo., area filed a lawsuit that attempts to hold large energy companies liable for the alleged effects of global warming, the state’s top lawyer showed that she disagrees with their legal argument by voicing her opposition to similar lawsuits in California.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Oil companies again urge judge to reject Calif. global warming lawsuits

  By Daniel Fisher | 2 years ago

  SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Chevron, in a renewed motion to dismiss climate change litigation against it filed by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, described the case as a futile attempt to get around numerous prior court decisions preventing similar lawsuits over the sale of legal products.

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  From Legal Newsline

  Chevron says climate change lawsuit `not viable' as it participates in judge's science seminar

  By Daniel Fisher | 2 years ago

  SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - Five of the world’s largest oil and gas producers filed a motion to dismiss a climate change lawsuit against them by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco even as they prepared to deliver an unusual “tutorial” on climate science to the federal judge overseeing the case.