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Published: October 20th, 2009 01:12 PM
Last Modified: October 20th, 2009 01:29 PM
Link: Constitutional Accountability Center A federal appeals court is backing a lawsuit by victims of Hurricane Katrina seeking damages related to global warming, while a California court has dismissed a similar suit by the storm-threatened Alaska village of Kivalina. Kivalina's lawsuit, charging that oil companies are conspiring to create a global-warming "nuisance" that is causing the village to disappear beneath rising sea levels, does not have "judicially discoverable and manageable standards," the court ruled. An appeal is expected.
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