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February 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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After Denying Motions to Stop Construction Activities in National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska Federal Court Enjoined Certain Work for Two Weeks. The court also concluded that the plaintiffs had established a likelihood of irreparable harm. Alaska Feb. Alaska Jan. Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic v.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court denied, however, Connecticut’s motion for costs and fees, noting that several issues raised by Exxon were novel in the Second Circuit and that many relevant portions of district court rulings in other circuits had not been subject to appellate review until the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the Baltimore case.

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We have previously discussed the lawsuit of former Alaska Gov. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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In addition, the court found that the company had failed to show that the alleged RICO violations proximately caused injury to its business or property. The court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. On October 4 , the federal district court for the Northern District of California vacated the U.S.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The proposed intervenors had argued that “[t]he public deserves to see documentation of the effort by a tort lawyer to help his tort campaign against by enlisting the New York Office of Attorney General, successfully, if in pursuit of terribly unsuccessful prosecution at a cost, clearly, of millions of taxpayer dollars.”