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Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. BP PLC

August 13, 2021

U.S. Chamber files supplemental amicus brief arguing that federal common law claims regarding the effects of global climate change are removable to federal court even if the plaintiff fails to...

SOS v. State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Co.

August 12, 2021

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging Eleventh Circuit to hold that a class action must be dismissed where the defendant remediated the injury of the named plaintiff before class certification.

Plaquemines Parish v. Louisiana

August 5, 2021

Fifth Circuit grants petition for panel rehearing, revisits its earlier decision on the timeliness of removal under the Federal Officer Removal Statute, and concludes that removal was timely. The...

Kelly v. RealPage Inc.

August 5, 2021

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief in Third Circuit arguing that a plaintiff class failed to meet the requirements of concrete injury, specific personal jurisdiction over the defendant, and Rule 23...

State of Rhode Island v. Shell Oil Products Co., LLC

July 29, 2021

U.S. Chamber files supplemental amicus brief arguing that federal common law claims regarding the effects of global climate change are removable to federal court even if the plaintiff fails to...

Chamber of Commerce v. Franchot

July 29, 2021

U.S. Chamber and coalition oppose the State’s motion to dismiss and cross-move for summary judgment on their challenge to Maryland’s digital services tax.

City and County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP; County of Maui v. Chevron USA, Inc.

July 26, 2021

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief arguing that district court erred in holding that 28 U.S.C. § 1442, the federal-officer removal statute, required a causal nexus between acts taken under federal...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Connors

June 21, 2021

U.S. Supreme Court denies certiorari to consider the application of Younger abstention to an unfair or deceptive practices lawsuit dreamed up by contingency-fee lawyers with no independent pre-...

Healthcare Distribution Alliance v. James

June 18, 2021

U.S. Chamber files amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to clarify that punitive state and local fines are not excluded from federal judicial review under the Tax Injunction Act.

Chevron Corp. v. City of Oakland

June 14, 2021

U.S. Supreme Court denies certiorari in case involving question whether putative state-law tort claims alleging harm from global climate change are removable to federal court because they arise...