Litigation
Jun. 23, 2015
Judge knocks out railroad legal challenge to oil spill planning requirement
Calling the legal claims premature, U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley dismissed a railroad industry lawsuit over a new state law aimed at protecting inland waterways and improving oil spill response as more trains carry oil into California.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A Sacramento federal judge has tossed out a railroad industry challenge to a new California
law that, in reaction to the surge of trains bringing crude oil into the state, requires
companies to develop oil spill response plans.
The state has not yet written the regulations to enforce the new law, and rail company
cla...
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