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Critics deride lawsuit blaming oil companies for Washington state woman's 2021 death
The Center Square ^ | 7/9/2025 | Carleen Johnson

Posted on 07/11/2025 12:37:56 PM PDT by simpson96

In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, big oil companies – including ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell – are facing a climate change wrongful death lawsuit from the family of a Seattle woman.

Critics say the lawsuit is frivolous and part of a public relations campaign being waged against the industry nationwide.

The lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court on May 28, alleges the oil companies knowingly fueled climate change and misled the public about the risks and consequences that the suit claims contributed to the record-high temperatures that blanketed western Washington in the final week of June 2021.

Julie Leon died of hyperthermia on June 28, 2021, Seattle’s hottest day on record, when temperatures soared to 108 degrees.

“On that day, Julie was overcome by heat while driving through Seattle with her windows rolled down. She managed to safely pull off the highway and onto a residential street before losing consciousness. Roughly two hours later, a good Samaritan discovered her, unresponsive and hot to the touch. First responders administered over a dozen rounds of CPR and other lifesaving measures but could not revive her,” the legal filing reads.

The lawsuit contends the extreme heat that killed Leon was linked to fossil fuel-driven alteration of the climate.

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1 posted on 07/11/2025 12:37:56 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Climate Change turned me into a Newt! (I got better)


2 posted on 07/11/2025 12:39:30 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: simpson96

Any judge that doesn’t throw this lawsuit needs to be retired. Preferably without a pension.


3 posted on 07/11/2025 12:40:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: simpson96

RIP to the deceased, but this isn’t exactly the first time someone has died this way.

I don’t know how they expect to prove their case. If climate change caused the record temperatures, wouldn’t those temperatures occur more often, becoming a more usual pattern and in more places? I remember summers fifty years ago that were hotter than anything we have had recently, and no one had heard of climate change back then.


4 posted on 07/11/2025 1:00:04 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: simpson96

Here’s a solution. Cut off all oil and gas deliveries to the county/city in which the lawsuit was filed.


5 posted on 07/11/2025 1:02:48 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

the oil companies knowingly fueled climate change and misled the public about the risks and consequences


Can we say it is a little bit of a reach


6 posted on 07/11/2025 1:07:04 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: simpson96

If they lose this they should refuse to sell their products there.


7 posted on 07/11/2025 1:08:06 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: simpson96
She managed to safely pull off the highway and onto a residential street before losing consciousness. Roughly two hours later, a good Samaritan discovered her, unresponsive and hot to the touch.

I’m going to suggest an autopsy will reveal a different cause of death. She was hot to touch because she died and sat in the sun and assumed “room temperature.”

8 posted on 07/11/2025 1:15:33 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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Dehydration and heat stroke caused her death. Was she so stupid as to not drink enough fluids. This was a death caused by her ignorance/stupidity.

How many other people died from heat stroke on that?


9 posted on 07/11/2025 1:17:38 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: simpson96

She didn’t have AC?

Just how old was her car?

And why even go out in that kind of weather?


10 posted on 07/11/2025 1:42:17 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: riverrunner
Can we say it is a little bit of a reach

Counter-sue the family if they ever drove a gas or diesel vehicle as contributing to the problem.

11 posted on 07/11/2025 2:37:38 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: simpson96

“Fossil” fuel definitely caused the death of Aaron Bushnell.


12 posted on 07/11/2025 2:50:37 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: simpson96

Ahole lawyers going for a Hail Mary payoff ala tobacco settlements..


13 posted on 07/11/2025 4:21:02 PM PDT by A strike (unfortunately PDJT is continuing the UKUS v Russia war)
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