A case to watch

I'm at the Three Degrees conference on the law and human rights at UW. Steve Berman (the force behind the tobacco lawsuits) just spoke about a case he's working on involving a town in Alaska that is threatened by climate change. So the town is suing Exxon et al. The suit was filed in February 2008 and the defendants have all filed motions to dismiss. These motions have all been granted in the few previous cases of this sort, and that may happen again here. If not, Steve says that they'll gain access to more materials like this from groups like the Global Climate Coalition.