Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish · ¶41

The ordinary understanding of “relating to” requires a connection that is not “tenuous, remote, or peripheral.” Rutledge, 592 U. S., at 94 (Thomas, J., concurring) (internal quotation marks omitted). Ordinary readers would not understand the statement that someone is “ `related to Joe' ” to refer to “a mutual tie to Adam and Eve.” Ibid. Nor would they understand the futtering of a butterfy's wings to “relate to” the next week's weather.And, in this context, they would not understand the federal officer removal statute to reach all suits with any attenuated connection to federal duties. For instance, the D. C. Circuit has held that a false- advertising suit targeting an oil company's statements to consumers about the future effects of fossil fuels on climate change did not relate to its decades-earlier production for the Government. See Exxon Mobil Corp., 89 F. 4th, at 156; see also…

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