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21 Oct 5:00 am
... the plaintiffs' private property, as well as public property useful to them." Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., ___ F.3d ___ (5th Cir. October 16, ... Id., at 3. The Circuit Court spent a considerable amount of time on the question of standing, see
Comer, at 3-17, but we do not here discuss that aspect of the opinion in ... , we REVERSE the judgment of the district court and REMAND the
case to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. Download PDF file of Comer v. Murphy Oil
21 Oct 9:34 am
... and seeking damages resulting from corporate greenhouse gas emissions. The case follows another recent related decision in State of Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co.
Inc. issued on September 21, 2009, by the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit [ ... political question and that the plaintiffs had standing in light of the U.S Supreme Court's
decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. While the case returns to the district court for trial, it remains a decided longshot on the merits in light of the ...
19 May, 2007 10:12 am
... prohibiting the execution of people with mental retardation. The execution of people with serious mental illness remains to be prohibited in the USA, and constitutional protections for this category of defendants is minimal. Incompetence is a difficult burden to meet, whether it is ... an understanding
human, not to a discarded piece of flesh".(47) Caption Photograph of Robert Comer at sentencing reprinted from Comer v. Schriro, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 15 March 2007 Robert Comer ...
17 Oct 10:26 am
... climate change lawsuit for presenting a nonjusticiable political question. See Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, 2009 WL 3321493 (5th Cir. Oct. 16, 2009). ... claims to impose caps on certain companies' greenhouse gas emissions. See Connecticut v. American
Elec. Power Co., 2009 WL 2996729 (2d Cir. Sept ... accepted a causal chain virtually identical in part to that alleged by plaintiffs" when it held in Massachusetts v. EPA that to
meet the "fairly traceable" standard, the states merely had to show a contributing ...
5 Nov 1:40 pm
... allow lawsuits to proceed that assert common law tort claims based on business contribution to climate change. Comer v. Murphy Oil
USA Inc. is the second decision in the last two months to allow claims to proceed. Earlier in October, the ... a judgment. For example, tort
claims must meet more stringent causation standards than are required to demonstrate standing. The Comer court found that plaintiffs had
demonstrated sufficient causation. The Court said plaintiffs did not have to show that the ...
23 Oct 8:15 am
... extensive property damage. The Fifth Circuit's decision follows closely on the heels of the Second Circuit's recent decision in State of Connecticut et al. v. American
Electric Power Company Inc. ("CT v. AEP") holding that several states, ... on defendants, but one thing is certain - the Second and Fifth circuits have held that these claims
should go forward. Read the Fifth Circuit's Decision in Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, et al., No.
07-60756 (pdf) Read the full Kivalina decision (pdf) Read more on ...
4 Nov 1:17 am
... Electric Power Co. (here) and the Fifth Circuit's October 16, 2009 decision in Comer v. Murphy Oil USA (here). In each of these cases, a variety of claimants asserted claims based on nuisance and other tort ... related companies, claiming that the
defendants' carbon emissions had caused (or increased) the plaintiffs' claimed harm. The claimants in the Comer case are victims of Hurricane
Katrina, who basically claim the defendants' activities exacerbated the hurricane damage. In each case, the ...
11 Nov 1:33 am
... law in the context of pollution cases, applied recent legal and legislative developments to the climate change paradigm (i.e. Massachusetts v. EPA, 127 S. Ct. 1438 (2007)),
and provided plaintiffs with guidance on how to frame their claims. The overall effect was to make climate change public nuisance cases more viable (e.g. Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., No. 1:05-CV-00436LG (S.D. Miss. Aug. 30, 2007); and Native Village of Kivalina
v. ExxonMobile Corp., Civ. No. 08-2095 (N.D. Cal.)).
11 Nov 1:33 am
... law in the context of pollution cases, applied recent legal and legislative developments to the climate change paradigm (i.e. Massachusetts v. EPA, 127 S. Ct. 1438 (2007)),
and provided plaintiffs with guidance on how to frame their claims. The overall effect was to make climate change public nuisance cases more viable (e.g. Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., No. 1:05-CV-00436LG (S.D. Miss. Aug. 30, 2007); and Native Village of Kivalina
v. ExxonMobile Corp., Civ. No. 08-2095 (N.D. Cal.)).
21 Oct 4:09 am
... Lodge, Churchill, Oct 08 On Friday, October 16, a second major US appeals court ruled that victims of climate change can sue polluters. In Comer v. Murphy Oil USA (5th Cir.), victims of Hurricane Katrina sued a number of companies that produce
fossil ... none of these claims are nonjusticiable political questions.This echoes the September decision of the Second Circuit in Connecticut v. American Electric that we
described last month. Both decisions are likely headed to the Supreme ...
16 Oct 2:00 pm
... that allegedly increased the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina on the grounds that plaintiffs' complaint raised political questions. Comer.
v. Murphy Oil USA, No. 07-60756 (5th Cir. Oct. 16, 2009). One day after the Kivalina Village district court rejected the approach taken
by the Normal 0 false false false 2nd Circuit in Connecticut v. AEP, the 5th Circuit ruled that the complaint in the Hurricane Katrina litigation did not raise political
questions and that ...
20 Oct 3:19 pm
... complaint that tied CO2 emissions to global warming under a public nuisance claim. Last Friday, the Fifth Circuit reached the same result in a case arising from Hurricane Katrina. A
class of Mississippi property owners alleged in Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, No. 07-60756 (5th
Cir. Oct. 16, 2009), that carbon dioxide warmed the globe and made Katrina extra fierce. Of the Yankee court's decision, the panel said: The Second Circuit Court of ...
21 Oct 1:12 pm
... against US energy and chemical companies including Peabody Coal and Massey Energy for their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change which in turn contributed to
the catastrophic wreck left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Comer v. Murphy Oil USA, et. al.
The plaintiffs seek compensatory and punitive damages under Mississippi common law and constitutional provisions. Importantly, the 5th Circuit ...
15 Nov, 2007 7:21 am
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30 Jan, 2007 12:33 am
... Potential Conflict Existed in Defendants' Law Firm's Representation Mandating Disqualification Finkelman v. Greenbaum SUFFOLK COUNTY Torts Questions of Fact Exist on Whether
School's Staff ... for Declaratory Judgment On Student Loan Guarantor's Damages Demands Hummingbird USA Inc. v. Texas Guaranteed Student
Loan Corp. U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN ... Standing for Relief Against HUD Not Reconsidered; 'Gratz' 'Comer' Equal Protection Analyses
Inapplicable Vaughn v. Consumer Home Mortgage Co. Inc. U.S. ...
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