Biden DOJ Urges High Court To Reject Calls To Upend Climate Lawsuits

The Biden administration’s solicitor general (SG) is urging Supreme Court justices to reject two petitions -- one from the oil industry and another from GOP-led states -- that seek to derail a raft of climate nuisance and fraud cases proceeding across the country in state courts. In both cases, Sunoco, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, et al. , and State of Alabama, et al. v. California, et al. , the court asked the SG to provide the...