NATIVE VILLAGE OF KIVALINA v. EXXONMOBIL CORP.

Case No. C 08-1138 SBA.

663 F.Supp.2d 863 (2009)

NATIVE VILLAGE OF KIVALINA, and City of Kivalina, Plaintiffs, v. EXXONMOBIL CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California, Oakland Division.

September 30, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luke Cole, Brent Joseph Newell, San Francisco, CA, Barbara A. Mahoney, Steve W. Berman, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Drew D. Hansen, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., Seattle, WA, Benjamin Krass, Mark Richard Rielly, Matthew F. Pawa, Law Offices of Matthew F. Pawa, P.C., Newton Centre, MA, Christopher A. Seeger, James A. O'Brien, Stephen A. Weiss, Seeger Weiss LLP, New York, NY, Dennis J. Reich, Rich & Binstock, LLP, Eric J. Mayer, H. Lee Godfrey, Stephen D. Susman, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., Houston, TX, Gary E. Mason, Mason LLP., Washington, DC, Heather Kendall Miller, Native American Rights Fund, Anchorage, AK, Reed R. Kathrein, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Berkeley, CA, for Plaintiffs.

John Frederic Daum, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Matthew T. Heartney, Arnold & Porter, Daniel Paul Collins, Ronald L. Olson, Munger Tolles & Olson, Richard Kevin Welsh, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Belynda B. Reck, Hunter & Williams LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Hacker D. Jonathan, Jonathan D. Hacker, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Kathleen Taylor Sooy, Scott L. Winkelman, Crowell & Moring LLP, Norm W. Fichthorn, F. William Brownell, Allison D. Wood, Hunton & Williams, LLP, Jeffrey Alan Lamken, Baker Botts, LLP, Karl R. Moor, The Southern Company, Kevin Patrick Holewinski, Jones Day, Washington, DC, Michael B. Gerrard, Philip H. Curtis, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Shawn P. Regan, Hunton & Williams LLP, New York, NY, Lisa Kobialka, King & Spalding LLP, Redwood City, CA, Jonathan Lawrence Marsh, Robert E. Meadows, Tracie J. Renfroe, King & Spalding LLP, Houston, TX, Elizabeth L. Deeley, Casey M. Nokes, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Jerome Cary Roth, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Samuel Ray Miller, Sidley Austin LLP, Thomas Ailbe Rector, Jones Day, San Francisco, CA, Andrew Brian Clubok, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Stuart A.C. Drake, Susan E. Engel, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Tracy A. Roman, Crowell & Moring, Paul E. Gutermann, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, David T. Buente, Jr., Peter D. Keisler, Sidley Austin LLP, Allison D. Wood, Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington, DC, Steven Paul Rice, Crowell & Moring LLP, Irvine, CA, Felix Lebron, Kamran Salour, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Santa Monica, CA, Michael L. Rice, Thomas E. Fennell, Jones Day, Dallas, TX, for Defendants.


ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS TO DISMISS FOR LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION (Docket 171, 172, 175, 176, 177)

SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG, District Judge.

Plaintiff Native Village of Kivalina (the Village) is the governing body of an Inupiat Eskimo village of approximately 400 people who reside in the City of Kivalina (Kivalina), which also is a plaintiff in this action. The Complaint alleges that as a result of global warming, the Arctic sea...

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