High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corporation, et al. is a lawsuit filed on February 26, 2008 in a United States district court. The suit based on the common law theory of nuisance claims monetary damages from the energy industry for the destruction of Kivalina, Alaska by flooding caused by climate change. The damage estimates made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Government Accountability Office are placed between $95 million to $400 million. The suit was dismissed by the United States district court on September 30, 2009 on the grounds that regulating greenhouse emissions was a political rather than a legal issue and one that needed to be resolved by Congress and the Administration rather than by courts. An appeal was filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in November 2009. In November 2011 lawyers for the plaintiffs and the defendants made arguments before an appeals panel in San Francisco. The panel of appeals judges will decide whether to reinstate the case or not.