Oil Industry, Boulder Take Competing Views Of High Court Nuisance Ruling

The oil industry and Boulder, CO, officials are offering competing interpretations of the effect of the Supreme Court’s May decision that appellate courts can assess all of industry’s claims for “removing” climate change nuisance cases to federal court after they were originally filed in state courts. The procedural issue is crucial to determining the venue for where these cases will be heard, either in state court, where state and local governments brought them, or in federal court, where the industry...