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...
  • KoboldKomrade [he/him]English
    26•1 month ago

    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.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]English
      7•1 month ago

      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”.

    • ThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]OPEnglish
      15•1 month ago

      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.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]English
      3•1 month ago

      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.