( February 24, 2025, 1:17 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 21 sought a response after various Louisiana entities waived their right to respond to a petition for certiorari challenging a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that the oil drilling petitioners say contradicts precedent created in asbestos cases and imposes an erroneous “crabbed view” of federal officer removal that requires a causal nexus or contractual root to the conduct in question....