SEC Climate Reporting Rules Revived After Court Lifts Hold (1)

The Fifth Circuit restored the SEC’s climate disclosure regulations on Friday after it paused the rules last week.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision to dissolve its administrative stay came after the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit was selected Thursday in a lottery as the venue for a case consolidating nine lawsuits across the country against the Securities and Exchange Commission’s March 6 rules.

Fifth Circuit Judges Edith Jones, Stephen Higginson and Cory Wilson lifted the hold in an unpublished order. Their order also transfered litigation over the climate regulations to the Eighth ...