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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the following four decisions: BP p.l.c. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, No. 19-1189: Congress has commanded that generally, an order remanding a case back to State court is not reviewable on appeal, with an exception for remand orders issued pursuant to the federal officer removal statute at 28 U.S.C. §1442, or the civil rights removal statute at 28 U.S.C. §1443. 28 U.S.C. §1447(d). Here, Baltimore’s mayor and city council filed suit in Maryland state court against various energy companies, alleging that they had concealed the environmental impacts of the fossil fuels they promoted. The companies removed the suit to federal court on numerous grounds, one of which was §1442’s federal officer removal statute. The District Court granted the motion to remand, agreeing that none of the various grounds for removal applied. When the companies appealed, the Fourth Circuit read §1447(d) as only allowing for appellate revie

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