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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. 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.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. State court proceedings in Rhode Island’s case were put on hold in August pending the U.S.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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