CITY OF OAKLAND v. BP P.L.C.

No. C 17-06011 WHA and No. C 17-06012 WHA.

325 F.Supp.3d 1017 (2018)

CITY OF OAKLAND, a Municipal Corporation, and The People of the State of California, acting by and through Oakland City Attorney Barbara J. Parker, Plaintiffs, v. BP P.L.C., a public limited company of England and Wales, Chevron Corporation, a Delaware corporation, ConocoPhillips, a Delaware corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, a New Jersey corporation, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, a public limited company of England and Wales, and Does 1 through 10, Defendants And Related Case.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

Signed June 25, 2018.

Editors Note
Applicable Law: 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Cause: 28 U.S.C. § 1331 Fed. Question
Nature of Suit: 240 Torts to Land
Source: PACER


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erin Brianna Bernstein , Maria Bee , City Attorney's Office for the City of Oakland, Oakland, CA, Shana E. Scarlett , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Berkeley, CA, Benjamin A. Crass , Matthew F. Pawa , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Newton, MA, Benjamin Krass , Wesley Kelman , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Newton Centre, MA, Emerson Hilton , Steve W. Berman , Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Seattle, WA, for Plaintiffs.

Jonathan W. Hughes , Rachael S. Shen , Arnold Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Ethan D. Dettmer , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Megan R. Nishikawa , Nicholas Allen Miller-Stratton , King & Spalding LLP, Elizabeth Ann Kim , Jerome Cary Roth , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, CA, John David Lombardo , Matthew T. Heartney , Arnold & Porter LLP, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. , Andrea Ellen Neuman , William Edward Thomson , Gibson Dunn & Cruthcher LLP, Kalpana Srinivasan , Michael Brent Adamson , Susman Godfrey L.L.P., Mark Randall Oppenheimer , Dawn Sestito , O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Daniel Paul Collins , Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Nancy G. Milburn , Philip H. Curtis , Arnold Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Anne Marie Champion , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Steven M. Shepard , Susman Godfrey LLP, Daniel John Toal , Jaren Janghorbani , Theodore V. Wells, Jr. , Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY, Avi Garbow , Gibson Dunn Crutcher LLP, Justin Torres , King & Spalding LLP, Brendan J. Crimmins , David C. Frederick , David K. Suska , Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel and Frederick, PLLC, Washington, DC, Erica Worth Harris , Johnny William Carter , Neal Stuart Manne , Susman Godfrey LLP, Carol Margaret Wood , Tracie Jo Renfroe , King & Spalding LLP, Houston, TX, Herbert J. Stern , Joel M. Silverstein , Stern Kilcullen LLC, Florham Park, NJ, Kemper Diehl , Susman Godfrey L.L.P., Seattle, WA, George Ruben Morris , King and Spalding LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for Defendants.


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