http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: ExxonMobil Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/135597 The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to rehear a pair of linked cases that accuse Exxon Mobil Corp. of sabotaging certain oil wells in order to prevent other companies from drilling there. http://www.law360.com/articles/135597 http://www.law360.com/articles/135090 California's Orange County Water District has asked a federal judge to reconsider her ruling that put an end to 45 of 60 claims against several oil companies of contaminating groundwater with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether. http://www.law360.com/articles/135090 http://www.law360.com/articles/134979 The federal government has asked a judge to approve a nearly $6 million settlement between it and several defendants, including Exxon Mobil Corp., in a long-running dispute over contamination from a former Monsanto Co. plant in southern Illinois. http://www.law360.com/articles/134979 http://www.law360.com/articles/134702 A federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation on water contamination caused by methyl tertiary-butyl ether has tossed as time-barred 45 of the Orange County Water District's 60 claims accusing several oil companies of causing contamination by mishandling the gasoline additive. http://www.law360.com/articles/134702 http://www.law360.com/articles/134720 A judge has signed off on the $17.5 million settlement proposed by Exxon Mobil Corp. to resolve 50 cases consolidated in the ongoing multidistrict litigation concerning the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether. http://www.law360.com/articles/134720 http://www.law360.com/articles/134200 The Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled that natural gas being extracted at a facility owned by Exxon Mobil Corp. must be taxed farther upstream than what was determined by the state's tax board, a ruling that will likely lead to less revenue for state coffers. http://www.law360.com/articles/134200 http://www.law360.com/articles/132483 Two appellate decisions present the possibility that judges and juries, rather than legislatures and agencies, could exact a “price” on greenhouse gas emissions in the short term, either by capping prospective emissions or ordering damages for past emissions, say Jonathan W. Dettmann, Delmar R. Ehrich and Krisann Kleibacker Lee of Faegre & Benson LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/132483 http://www.law360.com/articles/132950 Shell Oil Co. has agreed to pay California $19.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the state's hazardous waste and underground fuel storage laws. http://www.law360.com/articles/132950 http://www.law360.com/articles/131871 While the recent holdings by the Second and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeal, that individual plaintiffs have standing to pursue climate nuisance claims, certainly have the potential to open “pandora’s box,” there are four reasons why these decisions may not lead to an explosion of global warming litigation, say William F. Stewart and Danielle Willard of Cozen O’Connor. http://www.law360.com/articles/131871 http://www.law360.com/articles/131848 Southern Co. and American Electric Power Co. Inc. will likely be among the biggest losers under a U.S. cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases, even though their emissions are well below that of oil giants such as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., according to a newly released report. http://www.law360.com/articles/131848 http://www.law360.com/articles/131313 Two federal appeals court decisions that revived public nuisance suits aimed at greenhouse gas emitters could spur a flood of global warming suits, which in turn could spark fights with insurers over coverage for mounting legal costs, according to insurance lawyers. http://www.law360.com/articles/131313 http://www.law360.com/articles/130934 Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle 50 cases consolidated in the ongoing multidistrict litigation concerning its use of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether. http://www.law360.com/articles/130934 http://www.law360.com/articles/128440 The groundbreaking decision in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co. is one of several pending or recently decided cases in which parties seek to use the federal courts to attack greenhouse gas emissions. Notably, none of these other courts have definitively allowed global warming cases to proceed past the pleadings stage, say Gabrielle Sigel, Patricia L. Boye-Williams and Michael R. Strong of Jenner Block LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128440 http://www.law360.com/articles/129565 The parents of 53 Wisconsin children have asked a federal court to approve a $131,431 settlement with Exxon Mobil Corp. in their lawsuit to cover medical monitoring costs from ingesting the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether. http://www.law360.com/articles/129565 http://www.law360.com/articles/129524 A federal appeals court has resurrected a legal tangle involving Exxon Mobil Corp., a restaurant operator and a gas station owner over alleged contamination from leaking underground petroleum storage tanks in Plattsburgh, N.Y. http://www.law360.com/articles/129524 http://www.law360.com/articles/128684 Either the Supreme Court or Congress must acknowledge the frequent injustices being caused by the Twombly and Iqbal plausibility standard — especially in cases involving guilty plea and amnesty applicant antitrust defendants, say Michael D. Hausfeld and Michael P. Lehmann of Hausfeld LLP and law clerk Spencer Jenkins. http://www.law360.com/articles/128684 http://www.law360.com/articles/129348 The defendant companies in the multidistrict litigation over motor fuel temperature sales practices — which include ConocoPhillips Co., Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron USA Inc., BP Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. — have won a bid to strike changes made to four amended complaints in the MDL, which a magistrate judge ruled were unauthorized. http://www.law360.com/articles/129348 http://www.law360.com/articles/129139 A federal jury has ordered Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay $105 million in compensatory damages for contaminating New York City's groundwater with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether. http://www.law360.com/articles/129139 http://www.law360.com/articles/128957 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has revived a mass tort that accuses dozens of oil and chemical companies of adding to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina through their emissions of greenhouse gases, a decision that comes less than a month after the Second Circuit breathed new life into a similar mass tort. http://www.law360.com/articles/128957 http://www.law360.com/articles/128820 A federal judge has dismissed a public nuisance lawsuit brought by the tiny Alaskan village of Kivalina against 24 energy and utility giants, breaking from a federal appeals court's take on whether companies can be held liable for historic greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. http://www.law360.com/articles/128820