Plaquemines Parish’s coastal damage case against Chevron goes back to federal court

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has sent Plaquemines Parish’s $744.6 million coastal-damage case against Chevron back to a federal district judge and temporarily halted state-court proceedings. The move follows an April Supreme Court ruling that strengthened oil companies’ ability to move certain Louisiana coastal lawsuits into federal court based on their World War II-era work […] The post…