There are some cases even too big for U.S. District Judge William Alsup’s courtroom, it seems.

On Monday, Alsup, who has overseen multiple rounds of smartphone battles between Oracle and Google and the latter’s driverless car spat with Uber, dismissed a lawsuit brought by two Bay Area cities attempting to hold five large fossil fuel companies liable for the effects of climate change and rising sea levels on their cities. Alsup wrote that climate change “deserves a solution on a more vast scale than can be supplied by a district judge or jury in a public nuisance case.”

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