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COMER v. MURPHY OIL USA, INC.

No. 12-60291.

718 F.3d 460 (2013)

Ned COMER; Brenda Comer; Eric Haygood; Brenda Haygood; Larry Hunter; Sandra L. Hunter; Mitchell Kisielewski; Johanna Kisielewski; Rosemary Romain; Judy Olson; David Lain, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MURPHY OIL USA, INCORPORATED; Shell Oil Company; Chevron U.S.A. Incorporated; Exxonmobil Corporation; BP Amoco Chemical Company; BP America Production Company; BP Energy Company; BP Products North America, Incorporated; Placid Oil Company; Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corporation; Total Petrochemicals USA, Incorporated; ConocoPhillips Company; Atlantic Richfield Company; Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Incorporated; Occidental Crude Sales, Incorporated; Occidental Energy Marketing, Incorporated; Total Gas & Power North America, Incorporated; Hess Corporation; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation; Apache Corporation; Burlington Resources Offshore, Incorporated; AEP Generating Company; Columbus Southern Power Company, doing business as AEP Ohio; Ohio Power Company, doing business as AEP Ohio; Southwestern Electric Power Company; AEP Texas Central Company; AEP Texas North Company; Appalachian Power Company; Indiana Michigan Power Company; Kentucky Power Company; Public Service Company of Oklahoma; Alabama Power Company; Georgia Power Company; Gulf Power Company; Southern Power Company; Tennessee Valley Authority; Xcel Energy, Incorporated; Northen States Power Company of Minnesota; Northern States Power Company of Wisconsin; Public Service Company of Colorado; Southwestern Public Service Company; Cinergy Corporation; Duke Energy Corporation; LG & E Energy, Incorporated; LG & E Power, Incorporated; Kentucky Utilities Company; Western Kentucky Energy Corporation; Carolina Power & Light Company, doing business as Progress Energy Carolinas, Incorporated; Florida Power Corporation, doing business as Progress Energy Florida, Incorporated; Ameren Energy Generating Company; Union Electric Company, doing business as Ameren UE; Ameren Energy Resources Company; Ameren Energy Fuels and Services Company; Central Illinois Public Service Company, doing business as Ameren CIPS; Ameren Energy Marketing Company; Entergy Corporation; Virginia Electric and Power Company; Dominion Energy, Incorporated; Nextera Energy, Incorporated; Florida Power & Light Company; The AES Corporation; Arch Coal, Incorporated; International Coal Group, Incorporated; Alpha Natural Resources, Incorporated; Consol Energy, Incorporated; Foundation Coal Holdings, Incorporated; Massey Energy Company; Westmoreland Coal Company; Peabody Energy Corporation; Rio Tinto Energy America, Incorporated; The North American Coal Corporation; Ohio Valley Coal Company; BHP Minerals International, Incorporated; EI DuPont Denemours & Company; Honeywell International, Incorporated; Dow Chemical Company, Incorporated; Ameren Illinois Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 14, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Gerald Maples , F. Gerald Maples, P.A., New Orleans, LA, Plaintiff-Appellant.

Kerry J. Miller , James Royce Parish , Frilot, L.L.C., Tim D. Gray , Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy, L.L.P., Lawrence E. Abbott , Charles Henderson Abbott , Cotten, Schmidt & Abbott, L.L.P., Martin A. Stern , Adams & Reese, L.L.P., Michael Raudon Phillips , Brittany Lynn Buckley , Louis Matthew Grossman , Kean Miller, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, Jonathan Paul Dyal , Balch & Bingham, L.L.C., Shellye V. McDonald , Richard Patrick Salloum , Franke & Salloum, P.L.L.C., Ben H. Stone , Balch & Bingham, L.L.P., Sherrie Lynn Moore , Webb Sanders & Williams, P.L.L.C., Gulfport, MS, Daniel Paul Collins , Benjamin James Maro , Munger, Tories & Olson, L.L.P., Matthew T. Heartney , Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Rick Richmond , Kenneth Kiyul Lee , Kelly Marie Morrison , Jenner & Block, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, Norman Gene Hortman, Jr. , April Crane Ladner , Hortman, Harlow, Bassi, Robinson & McDaniel, P.L.L.C., Laurel, MS, Mary S. Johnson , Johnson Gray McNamara, L.L.C., Mandeville, LA, Robert Ellison Meadows , Jonathan Lawrence Marsh , Tracie Jo Renfroe , King & Spalding, L.L.P., Barrett Hodges Reasoner , Gibbs & Brims, L.L.P., Andrew Friedberg , Apache Corporation, Charles Stephen Kelley , Mayer Brown, L.L.P., Michael L. Rice , Jones Day, Houston, TX, Jonathan D. Hacker , O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P., Kathleen Taylor Sooy , Tracy Roman , Scott L. Winkelman , Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., Peter D. Keisler , David T. Buente, Jr., Quin Mikael Sorenson , Sidley Austin, L.L.P., Shawn Patrick Regan , F. William Brownell , Norman William Fichthorn , Allison D. Wood , Hunton & Williams, L.L.P., Kevin Patrick Holewinski , Jones Day, Philip S. Goldberg , Christopher Edward Appel , Victor E. Schwartz , Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Nicholas Cosmos Giallourakis , Forman, Perry, Watkins, Krutz & Tardy, L.L.P., J. Wyatt Hazard , Daniel, Coker, Horton & Bell, P.A., James Wilbourn Vise , Massey, Higginbotham, Vise & Phillips, P.A., Watts C. Ueltschey , Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, P.L.L.C., William Lee Watt , Bennett, Lotterhos, Sulser & Wilson, P.A., Charles Edwin Ross , James E. Graves, III , Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A., James W. Snider, Jr. , Entergy Mississippi, Incorporated, Jon Stephen Kennedy , Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C., Jackson, MS, Nancy Gordon Milburn , Philip Herbert Curtis , Michael B. Gerrard , Senior Counsel, Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., New York, NY, John Gwin Wheeler , Mitchell, McNutt & Sams, Tupelo, MS, Kenneth W. Barton , Benjamin McRae Watson , Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, P.L.L.C., William Charles Brabec , Adams & Reese, L.L.P., Ridgeland, MS, Robert Donald Gholson , Gholson Burson Entrekin & Orr, P.A., Laurel, MS, Taylor B. McNeel , Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, P.L.L.C., Ronald G. Peresich , Michael Edward Whitehead , Page, Mannino, Peresich & McDermott, P.L.L.C., Biloxi, MS, Timothy S. Bishop , Richard F. Bulger , Chad Matthew Clamage , Mayer Brown, L.L.P., James Patrick Gaughan , Schiff Hardin, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, Raymond Michael Ripple , Donna L. Goodman , Corporation Counsel, DuPont Legal, Wilmington, DE, Steven Robert Williams , Richard Trent Taylor , McGuire Woods, L.L.P., Richmond, VA, Edgar Robert Haden , Michael David Freeman , Balch & Bingham, L.L.P., Birmingham, AL, Maria Victoria Gillen , Edwin Warren Small , Assistant General Counsel, Tennessee Valley Authority, Office of the General Counsel, Knoxville, TN, Thomas E. Fennell , Jones Day, Dallas, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and BARKSDALE and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.

HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge:

A group of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents and property owners ("Plaintiffs") alleged that emissions by energy companies ("Defendants") contributed to global warming, which intensified Hurricane Katrina, which, in turn, damaged their property. The district court dismissed their claims with prejudice. A panel of this court reversed, in part, the district court's dismissal. Before mandate could issue, a majority of this court's active, unrecused...

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