Supreme Court to quickly decide on VW air act petition

February 11, 2021
The Supreme Court will decide Feb. 19 whether to grant Volkswagen’s petition for a writ of certiorari asking it to overturn a lower court ruling that the Clean Air Act does not preempt state and local governments from pursuing emissions cheating enforcement lawsuits against the company -- a fast timeline as VW filed the petition on Jan. 21. The high court docket for the case, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. The Environmental Protection Commission of...


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