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Article: Climate Change Litigation Accelerates As New Decisions Build Book of Case Law Say Pillsbury Attorneys.
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- The Business of Global Warming
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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Two starkly different decisions handed down in the past few days by the federal courts illustrate how the courts are addressing the complicated and controversial issues regarding climate change litigation.
On Friday, October 16, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the complaint of the class action plaintiffs in the case of Ned Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, et. al., Case No. 07-60756, could proceed. Reversing the lower federal court, the court ruled that the plaintiffs, residents and owners of land and property along the Mississippi Gulf Coast had standing to assert their claims that the defendants' operation of energy, fossil fuels ...