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Case preview: Justices to consider procedural issue in major climate-change lawsuit

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The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by the city of Baltimore against companies that produce fossil fuels, seeking to hold them responsible for their role in global warming. Baltimore asked the district court to send the case back to state court, and the district court agreed.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) decision denying a petition to delist the golden-cheeked warbler was arbitrary and capricious because the FWS applied “an inappropriately heightened” standard to its review of the delisting petition. Richardson v. Clarno , No. 20CV01920 (Or.