Posted on 10/20/2009 12:20:59 PM PDT by kingattax
Mississippi Gulf Coast property owners who suffered property damage during Hurricane Katrina have won an appeal in their efforts to sue energy, fossil fuel and chemical companies for their greenhouse gas contributions to global warming.
From the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's ruling:
The plaintiffs allege that defendants' operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming, viz., the increase in global surface air and water temperatures, that in turn caused a rise in sea levels and added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina, which combined to destroy the plaintiffs' private property, as well as public property useful to them.
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The plaintiffs have pleaded sufficient facts to demonstrate standing for their public and private nuisance, trespass, and negligence claims
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...
The Tabak template strikes again.
Simply think of each smokestack as one gigantic equivalent of an SHS system.
Don’t we need to apply the same standard to the planet that we apply to places where people gather?
If it’s bad in a bar, think of how much worse it is for the planet.
WE should sue their mothers, you mean.
And sometimes the big companies just pay suits like this to shut folks up. They’d better NOT. It’ll open the door wide open.
This is just plain insanity. If it weren’t for the energy companies, New Orleans would be just another coastal fishing village. This looks like a lawyer driven lawsuit where the lawyers get 45% off the top and the plaintiffs blow their winnings within 6 months. If this thing goes through, the enegery companies ought to leave Louisiana for good. Let them rot.
This is sarcasm. Right? Right?
Sheesh!
In other news, United Midgets sued the city for building sidewalks too close to their asses.
Is that judge on the Fifth or on a Fifth?
I was born in my global warming suit.
FMCDH(BITS)
If the enviro-wackos really believed that the oceans would rise 50 ft. (or whatever) in the next 100 years they would not be rebuilding NO. The fact that they are rebuilding it proves that they don’t believe this baloney.
*face palm*
I thought Dickie Scruggs was out of business. I wonder who's picked up the mantle of the "King of Torts"?
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