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A federal decide in Texas dismissed a controversial lawsuit on Monday ExxonMobil in opposition to activist shareholder Arjuna Capital over a local weather proposal, ruling that the corporate’s promise to not resubmit the proposal had rendered the matter moot.
“Arjuna has eradicated any concern or controversy between the events right here, Exxon’s declare is moot and should be dismissed with out prejudice,” U.S. District Choose Mark Pittman for the Northern District of Texas wrote in his ruling.
Exxon had sued Arjuna Capital and one other shareholder, Observe This, in January over a proposal they submitted earlier than the oil firm’s annual shareholder assembly on Could 29, calling on the corporate to speed up its discount of carbon emissions.
The 2 activist shareholders withdrew the proposal after Exxon filed a lawsuit, however the oil firm continued with the lawsuit, claiming that the traders might submit the same proposal at a future shareholder assembly.
Pittman had initially rejected Arjuna’s request to dismiss Exxon’s claims, echoing the oil big’s arguments, whereas dismissing the lawsuit in opposition to Netherlands-based Observe This over jurisdictional points.
However the decide mentioned Monday that there was not a difficulty at stake within the case after Arjuna made an “unconditional and irrevocable” promise to guarantee Exxon it will not submit the same proposal once more.
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