STATE BY TONG v. EXXON MOBIL CORP.

No. 21-1446-cv August Term 2022.

83 F.4th 122 (2023)

STATE of Connecticut, BY its Attorney General, William M. TONG, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 27, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin W. Cheney , Assistant Attorney General ( Matthew I. Levine , Deputy Associate Attorney General; Daniel M. Salton , Jonathan E. Harding , Assistant Attorneys General, on the brief), for William M. Tong, Attorney General of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellee State of Connecticut.

Kannon K. Shanmugam , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Washington, DC ( Justin Anderson , Kyle Smith , William T. Marks , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Washington, DC; Theodore V. Wells, Jr. , Daniel J. Toal , Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Kevin M. Smith , Tadhg Dooley , Wiggin & Dana LLP, New Haven, CT; Robert M. Langer , Wiggin & Dana, LLP, Hartford, CT; Patrick J. Conlon , Exxon Mobil Corporation, Spring, TX, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Exxon Mobil Corporation.

Before: Sullivan, Nardini, and Pérez, Circuit Judges.


In 2020, the State of Connecticut sued Exxon Mobil Corporation ("Exxon Mobil") in Connecticut state court, alleging that Exxon Mobil had engaged in a decades-long "campaign of deception" to knowingly mislead and deceive Connecticut consumers about the negative climatological effects of the fossil fuels that Exxon...

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