9th Circuit Upholds Remand Of Climate Change Suits, Limits Review Of Ruling

Mealey's (May 28, 2020, 2:17 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on May 26 limited its review of a federal judge in California’s ruling that remanded three climate change lawsuits brought by counties and municipalities against energy companies and held that the judge properly found that the companies were not acting under the government’s direction when extracting, producing and selling fossil fuels (County of San Mateo, et al. v. Chevron Corp., et al., No. 18-15499, 9th Cir.)....