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City of Hoboken v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

Filing Date: 2020
Case Categories:
  • Adaptation
    • Actions seeking money damages for losses
  • Common Law Claims
Principal Laws:
State Law—Nuisance, State Law—Negligence, State Law—Trespass, New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act
Description: Lawsuit seeking to recover climate change-related damages allegedly resulting from the defendant energy companies' production of fossil fuels and concealment of fossil fuels’ harms.
  • City of Hoboken v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
    Docket number(s): 2:20-cv-14243
    Court/Admin Entity: D.N.J.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    12/11/2020 Memorandum of Law Download Memorandum of law filed in support of motion to remand.
    11/05/2020 Motion Download Motion for remand filed by City of Hoboken.
    10/09/2020 Notice of Removal Download Notice of removal filed.
  • City of Hoboken v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
    Docket number(s): HUD-L-003179-20
    Court/Admin Entity: N.J. Super. Ct.
    Case Documents:
    Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary
    09/02/2020 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Hoboken Filed Suit Seeking Damages from Energy Companies for Climate Change Impacts. The City of Hoboken, New Jersey filed a lawsuit in state court asserting climate change-based claims for damages and injunctive relief against energy companies and the American Petroleum Institute. The City alleged that the defendants caused climate change-related harms through production of fossil fuels and concealment of fossil fuels’ harms. The complaint alleged that Hoboken is “uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise” and that the city was experiencing more frequent and severe storms as a result of climate change. In response to these impacts, Hoboken alleged that it had developed an adaptation and mitigation plan to address rainfall and seawater flooding that would cost more than $500 million. The complaint asserted claims of public and private nuisance, trespass, negligence, and violation of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act. The relief sought included compensatory, consequential, and punitive damages; treble damages under the Consumer Fraud Act; an order compelling the defendants to abate the alleged nuisance and to pay costs of abatement; an order enjoining future acts of trespass; and attorneys’ fees and costs.

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