If the Ninth Circuit accepts the oil companies’ argument that federal law must be used to decide the cases, then the suits, filed by a number of California counties and cities, will likely continue in federal, rather than state, court.
The three-judge panel has yet to be assigned, but the five appeals will be kept together “to the extent practicable” on that panel’s roster ...
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