9th Circuit Judges Appear Likely To Let Novel Youth Climate Case Proceed

December 11, 2017
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit appears likely to reject an extraordinary request by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to order district court dismissal of novel youth constitutional climate change case, with two of the three judges suggesting at Dec. 11 oral arguments that DOJ failed to meet the high bar needed to grant the relief. At issue in the case, Juliana, et al. v. United States of America , is whether the...


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