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West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey, and 21 other states, sued New York Thursday over a new law requiring fossil fuel companies to contribute seventy-five billion dollars to a fund to pay for damages caused by climate change.
Case file: https://ago.wv.gov/Documents/Final Superfund Complaint.pdf
So much for states rights.
Imagine being the actual demon that sues so you can kill everyone with your pollution even more
Noooo you can’t hold us responsible for our negative externalities that’s gommunsm!!!
I took my Econ 101 professor pretty seriously until he just skipped the entire chapter on externalities because we “didn’t need to learn it”.
If I were the NY government, I’d triple the fines for this. And nationalize (state-ize?) the companies too. And invade the fascist governments “suing” us.
But instead the liberals will “let the courts decide” then actually obey the ruling the majestic god-king judge.
I didn’t even know states could sue other states like that
Recent examples of court cases between states are California v. Texas (2021) challenging the Affordable Care Act after the mandate was reduced to $0 and Pennsylvania v. Texas (2020, dismissed by SCOTUS for lack of standing) challenging the election results.
The federal government can also sue a state or vice versa such as the four cases since 2016 named United States v. Texas.
Hell, Rhode Island vs. Massachusetts was ruled on in 1838 after going through the lower courts for seven years, starting in 1831, over a border dispute.
There’s a whole bunch of cases between states going back to the country’s beginning. I’m not a lawyer, though, so I don’t know what the oldest case is between two states is. Then there’s stuff like Dredd Scott vs. Sanford, which was basically Illinois vs. Missouri.
Hochul will probably give in to them
