Environmental, National

Court Rules in Favor of Youth Plaintiffs, Rejects Trump’s Attempt to Evade Constitutional Climate Trial

Our Children's Trust
(Source: Our Children’s Trust)

San Francisco—(ENEWSPF)—March 8, 2018

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By: Julia Olson and Philip Gregory

Yesterday, Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s “drastic and extraordinary” petition for writ of mandamus in the landmark climate lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, brought by 21 youth supported by Our Children’s Trust. The Court ruled ​that the Julianacase can proceed toward trial…

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