Environmental & Energy,
Consumer Law,
Business Law
Oct. 8, 2024
SF judge skeptical of oil majors' jurisdiction arguments
San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman said that arguments in favor of defendants' motion to quash claims brought by the state and several local governments didn't "square with common sense."
A San Francisco judge on Monday pushed back on the argument that 14 out-of-state oil companies, accused of misleading the public about an alleged fossil fuel industry impact on climate change, could not be subjected to the personal jurisdiction of a California court for "claims premised on conduct all over the world."
Dawn Sestito of O'Melveny & Myers LLP, one of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s lead attorneys who argued for the defendants' joint motion to quash, said...
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