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Climate Change Litigation In The Federal Courts: Jurisdictional Lessons From California V. Bp, Gil Seinfeld
Climate Change Litigation In The Federal Courts: Jurisdictional Lessons From California V. Bp, Gil Seinfeld
Michigan Law Review Online
On March 21 of this year, something unusual took place at a U.S. courthouse in San Francisco: a group of scientists and attorneys provided Federal District Judge William H. Alsup with a crash course in climate science. The five-hour tutorial was ordered by Judge Alsup in connection with a lawsuit that had been filed by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco (“the Cities”) against the world’s five largest producers of fossil fuels. The central issue in the case is whether the energy companies can be held liable for continuing to market fossil fuels long after they learned that such …
Rethinking Removal And "Relates To": International Arbitration Disputes And The N.Y. Convention, Holly Wilson
Rethinking Removal And "Relates To": International Arbitration Disputes And The N.Y. Convention, Holly Wilson
University of Richmond Law Review
Part I explores the historical roots of the Convention,
discusses the evolution of its removal provisions, and explains how
it functions in the district courts today. Part II addresses the arguments
in favor of reverting to the Ruhrgas standard. This article
demonstrates that the current judicial interpretation of the Convention's
removal provisions under Beiser is too broad and that the
stricter construction under Ruhrgas should be re-adopted. Part II
examines three key reasons why the current Beiser standard is unworkable:
the current standard (1) leads to absurd results, (2) disrespects
notions of federalism and strains comity, and (3) in conjunction …