Chevron in a statement said it "looks forward to additional challenges that should put an early end to this meritless lawsuit." Theodore Boutrous, a lawyer for Chevron at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, argued for the companies. "Our adherence to this doctrine does not change merely because plaintiffs raise novel and sweeping causes of action," she wrote for the three-judge panel. Circuit Judge Sandra Ikuta rejected the companies' arguments that the cases raised substantial federal issues that belonged in federal court, adding that the statute that governs removing cases from state to federal courts must be interpreted narrowly. Circuit Court of Appeals made it the third federal appeals court to remand a climate change lawsuit after the Supreme Court last year gave the companies an opening to try to fight them in federal court. The ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S.
Supreme Court required it to take another look. (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday sent lawsuits by six California cities and counties accusing ExxonMobil, Chevron Corp and other energy giants of fueling climate change back to state court after the U.S. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article.
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