Jurisdiction issue in coastal loss suits

KEVIN McGILL

Associated Press

The question of whether lawsuits blaming big oil companies for loss of vulnerable Louisiana coastal wetlands will be tried in state courts, as local parish governments want, or in federal courts, as the oil companies want, has been revived by a federal appeals panel. The Aug. 5 ruling at the 5th U.....

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Jurisdictional issues