"Industry lawyers convinced the justices to move lawsuits against oil companies from state to federal courts."
"The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the oil and gas industry’s efforts to move a long-standing legal battle over Louisiana’s eroding coastline out of the Bayou State’s courts.
In a 8-0 decision issued Friday, the justices were persuaded by industry lawyers’ position that a raft of lawsuits against oil and gas producers should be heard in federal court because the companies were doing the bidding of the federal government by providing petroleum products to fill World War II-era federal contracts for aviation gas, or avgas.
The oil industry’s win could make it easier for federal contractors and other private parties to move lawsuits against them to federal court, delaying proceedings and securing venues they see as more favorable to their arguments."
