Federal Judge Follows 9th Circuit Cases And Remands Climate Change Claims

Mealey's (November 3, 2022, 4:20 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Following the precedent set by two recent Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ decisions, a federal judge in California granted a motion to remand climate change claims brought against some of the world’s largest oil companies for lack of removal jurisdiction and vacated an order that held that the court lacked personal jurisdiction over some of the companies....