ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The federal district court for the District of Rhode Island for the most part denied a motion to dismiss a citizen suit asserting that Shell Oil Products US and other defendants (Shell) failed to prepare a terminal in Providence for the impacts of climate change. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 138.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. On the same day, the companies filed an application for a stay in the U.S. Supreme Court. Rhode Island v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

The Court concluded that the ordinary meaning of “order” in Section 1447(d) would include “the whole of a district court’s ‘order,’ not just some of its parts or pieces.” 199 (1996)—which concerned the scope of appellate review of orders certified for appeal by district courts—as its “most analogous precedent.” Rhode Island , No.

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