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California Employment Law Update
November 2021 California Employment Law Notes
By Tony Oncidi
We invite you to review our newly-posted November 2021 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law. The highlights include:…
California Employment Law Update
Gas Station Manager Was An Employee Of Shell Oil
By Tony Oncidi
Medina v. Equilon Enter., LLC, 68 Cal. App. 5th 868 (2021) Santiago Medina worked as a gas station cashier and manager for Equilon Enterprises, which is a Shell Oil Company subsidiary…
Eye on ESG
ESG Litigation: Shell to Appeal Court Ruling in Netherlands Climate Case
By Sam Eastwood, Johannes Weichbrodt, Nadine Pieper, Armineh Gharibian
In a recent Blog Post on May 28, 2021, we discussed a landmark court ruling issued by the Hague District Court in May 2021[1], requiring Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) to…
Allens Insights
Climate-related duties of care in Sharma and Shell
By Allens
Groundbreaking climate change cases have significant consequences for companies and projects 13 min read Two groundbreaking climate change-related court decisions in Australia and the Netherlands have shed light on the…
The D&O Diary
The Predominance of ESG-Related Issues and the Implications for Corporate Boards
The importance of ESG issues for companies and their executives is nothing new, but in recent days ESG issues seem to have taken center stage. The surprising success of activist…
Green Building Law Update
A Call for Comprehensive and Clearer ESG Disclosures
Last Wednesday, with a Dutch court finding Royal Dutch Shell partially responsible for climate change and ordering it to reduce emissions and two environmental activists being voted to Exxon Mobil…
Eye on ESG
Unprecedented Decision Sets a Milestone for Climate Change Litigation Cases: What’s Next?
By Luiz Gustavo Bezerra, Gedham Gomes, Laura Gonçales
As our readers are well aware, climate change and stakeholder litigation is on a global uptrend as it has never been before. Whether claims are brought against governments or companies,…
Pace University Law Library Blog
Royal Dutch Shell Ordered to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions
The Hague District Court in the Netherlands, has ruled that Royal Dutch Shell must reduce emissions of Carbon Dioxide by the end of 2030 to a net 45% as compared…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Second Circuit Holds That Federal Common Law Defeats State-Law Tort Suit For Production and Sale of Fossil Fuels
In City of New York v. Chevron Corp., No. 18-2188 (2d Cir. Apr. 1, 2021), the Second Circuit affirms a decision dismissing, on federal common law grounds, a tort action…
Cohen & Buckmann Insights
Is Participant Data a Plan Asset? Another Court Says No
One of the novel claims in 401(k) and 403(b) plan litigation has been that vendors violate ERISA when they use participant data to cross sell other products and services to…