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/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 http://www.law360.com/articles/113733 Joint venture deals with investors such as private equity funds and foreign companies have helped keep energy development projects in the U.S. moving forward despite a dearth of available financing — and these types of partnership arrangements will remain frequent in the energy sector even as the economy continues to improve, lawyers say. http://www.law360.com/articles/113733 http://www.law360.com/articles/128501 Exxon Mobil Corp. is off the hook for punitive damages in a lawsuit brought by the city of New York over contamination of Queens' groundwater by gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether. http://www.law360.com/articles/128501 http://www.law360.com/articles/128043 Earlier this year, we wrote about how global warming litigation has so far not turned into the “next big thing” in mass tort litigation. The ground may have moved, however, following the Second Circuit’s opinion in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co., where the court found that such suits could proceed under the federal common law of nuisance, say Steven F. Napolitano and Lincoln Davis Wilson of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/128043 http://www.law360.com/articles/127646 Exxon Mobil Corp. said Friday it had appealed a $150 million judgment awarded to residents of Jacksonville, Md., after a jury found in March that the company was liable for an undetected gas leak at a service station that contaminated surrounding groundwater. http://www.law360.com/articles/127646 http://www.law360.com/articles/127579 Finding that a lower court failed to make the requisite finding of irreparable harm before granting it, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has vacated a preliminary injunction granted to Baker Hughes Inc. in a patent suit against rival Nalco Holding Co. over a method for refining crude oil. http://www.law360.com/articles/127579 http://www.law360.com/articles/126987 Exxon Mobil Corp. has reportedly agreed to purchase a $4 billion stake in an oil field off the coast of Ghana from Kosmos Energy LLC. http://www.law360.com/articles/126987 http://www.law360.com/articles/126926 Another property owner in Puerto Rico has sued Esso Standard Oil Co., now owned by ExxonMobil Corp., for allegedly allowing gasoline to leak from underground storage tanks at a service station and contaminate soil and groundwater. http://www.law360.com/articles/126926