Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to Decide if Plaquemines Parish vs. Chevron Case Stays in State Court

Chevron makes move to block coastal lawsuit judgment

Chevron asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to move a Plaquemines Parish coastal damage case into federal court, a step the company says would erase a $744.6 million state jury verdict against it.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to decide if Plaquemines Parish vs. Chevron case stays in state court

The legal battle between Plaquemines Parish and Chevron continues as Louisiana is fighting to get the oil and gas company to pay for past damage to the coastal wetlands.

Chevron seeks to nullify $744M verdict over coastal damage - Regional Media News

(The Center Square) - Chevron asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to move a Plaquemines Parish coastal damage case into federal court, a step the company says would erase a $744.6 million state jury verdict against it. The lawsuit accuses Chevron's predecessor of dumping billions of gallons of wastewater into Louisiana marshes during decades of oil production. Wednesday's arguments were not about whether Chevron caused the damage. The judges…

Plaquemines Parish case against Chevron centers on federal court jurisdiction and state judgment

NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill says the first day of oral arguments in Plaquemine Parish’s case against Chevron centered on whether the case could stay in federal court and what would happen if it does.Previously, a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740 million to clean up damage to the state’s coastline, one of multiple similar lawsuits. Backed by the Trump administration, Chevron and others had asked that the l…

Chevron appeals a $744M Louisiana state verdict against them over coastal damage

The lawsuit accuses Chevron’s predecessor of dumping billions of gallons of wastewater into Louisiana marshes during decades of oil production.

Chevron tries to dodge $745 million verdict over Louisiana coastline damage

(CN) - Chevron maintained on Wednesday before a Fifth Circuit panel that lawsuits by Louisiana and its various parishes accusing it of decades of coastline damage from oil drilling belong in federal court, not state court. In its effort to undo a Louisiana jury's $745 million verdict, Chevron argues that a