US Supreme Court to kick off term with bid by Big Oil to toss climate suits ↧ ↧ US Supreme Court to kick off term with bid by Big Oil to toss clima... The US Supreme Court begins its ​new nine-month term on Monday with arguments in a major case involving a bid by oil companies ‌ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to scuttle a lawsuit by officials in Boulder, Colorado, seeking monetary damages for harms caused by climate change.