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The Climate Litigation Database

Phillips 66 Co. v. City of Richmond

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / California
Year
2020
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Levin Richmond Terminal Corp. v. City of Richmond

About this case

Filing year
2020
Status
Complaint filed.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → California
Docket number
4:20-cv-1643
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States District Court for the Northern District of California (N.D. Cal.)
Case category
Constitutional Claims (US) → Commerce Clause (US)Constitutional Claims (US) → Fourteenth Amendment (US)Constitutional Claims (US) → Other Constitutional Claims (US)Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Other Statutes and Regulations (US)
Principal law
United States → Commerce ClauseUnited States → Contracts ClauseUnited States → Fifth Amendment—TakingsUnited States → Fourteenth Amendment—Due ProcessUnited States → Fourteenth Amendment—Equal ProtectionUnited States → Hazardous Materials Transportation ActUnited States → Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA)United States → Shipping Act of 1984United States → State Constitutions → California Constitution
At issue
Challenge to City of Richmond ordinance that prohibited transloading and export of coal and petroleum coke.

Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
03/09/2020
Complaint filed.
The owner of a refinery that produces petcoke filed a lawsuit challenging a City of Richmond ordinance that prohibited transloading and export of coal and petroleum coke (petcoke). The plaintiff alleged that the City viewed the objective of the ordinance as to reduce global climate change. The complaint asserted causes of action under the Commerce Clause and the Impairments Clause.
Complaint

Summary

Challenge to City of Richmond ordinance that prohibited transloading and export of coal and petroleum coke.