California, Cities Tell High Court Not To Review Climate Change Remand Ruling

Mealey's (May 11, 2021, 1:06 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The state of California, city of Oakland and city and county of San Francisco tell the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief filed May 10 that there is no need to review a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that sent their climate change action against five energy companies back to state court, explaining that their state law nuisance claim is based on the companies’ alleged misrepresentations to consumers about their knowledge of the association between burning fossil fuels and global warming and that the causes of action do not arise under federal law....