Posted on 07/31/2018 11:34:22 AM PDT by rktman
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday targeting ExxonMobil on the basis that two California cities waging a legal battle could not prove the energy company was responsible for climate change in the state.
District Judge William Alsup wrote that San Francisco and Oakland failed to prove that global warming would be substantially curtailed if the oil company did not operate inside California. His decision follows a ruling the judge made in June dismissing both cases on the grounds that Congress, not the court system, is responsible for addressing the emission of greenhouse gasses.
“It is manifest that global warming would have continued in the absence of all California-related activities of defendants,” Alsup wrote in his July 27 decision. “Plaintiffs have therefore failed to adequately link each defendants’ alleged California activities to plaintiffs’ harm.”
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If we had a ‘Loser Pays’ system like civilized countries, this crap would come to a screeching halt...................
Clinton appointee.
Yes, if the cities had to pay Exxon/Mobile’s legal cost to defend themselves, these attempts at extortion by law firms would cease. The cities were merely cover for the motives of the greedy lawyers. But if the cities had to put some skin in the game—game over.
Good news is that the CA loonies' extortion attempt failed.
Bad news is that Alsup has nonetheless ingested the gorebull koolaid.
DAMN ... I was thinking how cool it would be if ALL oil companies ceased ALL activities in Kalifornia ... completely and forever
Yeah...but then the lights go out at FReeRepublic of Fresno CA.
they learned from rev jax and girl in a bag brawly boy
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