California communities won an important victory in their efforts to put Big Oil companies on trial for climate deception last week, when a California judge rejected one of the oil and gas companies’ arguments to dismiss their cases. The ruling clears one more hurdle for lawsuits from the state of California and the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz, Imperial Beach, and Richmond, and the counties of San Mateo, Marin, and Santa Cruz working their way through state court in California.