Climate Change Jurisdiction: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Kicks Climate Change Case Back to State Court
The Energy Law Blog
JUNE 2, 2020
1331 because the cities’ claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.” Do State Nuisance Claims Related to Climate Change Arise Under Federal Law? the district court found that the Plaintiffs’ claims supported federal question jurisdiction because those state-law claims were “necessarily governed by federal common law.”
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