(CN) — Chevron maintained on Wednesday before a Fifth Circuit panel that lawsuits by Louisiana and its various parishes accusing it of decades of coastline damage from oil drilling belong in federal court, not state court. He said the court needs to take action before Sept. 3, when the state court is scheduled to finalize the judgment against Chevron. But Aguiñaga disagreed that vacating the remand order would automatically divest the state court of jurisdiction. “We’re forced against our will to litigate in state court,” Clement said. Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham, a Donald Trump appointee, and Senior U.S.