Exxon Mobil Corp., BP Plc, and other energy giants triumphed Monday in an arcane but consequential U.S. Supreme Court case that gives the industry a chance to gain the upper hand in climate litigation nationwide.
The justices ruled 7-1 that a federal appeals court should have considered a full suite of industry arguments, rather than focusing on a narrow issue, in a tussle over whether a pioneering lawsuit from Baltimore belongs in state or federal court.
The decision will reverberate in the rapidly expanding world of climate liability, likely delaying more than a dozen other cases from state and local ...