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From Common Dreams
Summary
- A panel of Trump-appointed judges dismissed the youth climate case brought against the U.S. government by 21 young Americans.
- The Biden Justice Department’s emergency petition for dismissal was granted, citing lack of standing.
- The youth plaintiffs, backed by Our Children’s Trust, are disappointed and vow to continue fighting for climate justice.
A panel of three Trump-appointed judges on Wednesday granted the Biden Justice Department’s request to have a landmark youth climate case dismissed, another setback for a long-running effort to hold the U.S. government accountable for damaging the planet and violating the rights of younger generations.
The order handed down by a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel instructs an Oregon district court to toss Juliana v. United States for lack of standing, siding with the Justice Department’s emergency petition for a writ of mandamus—which the DOJ itself describes as “an extraordinary remedy” that “should only be used in exceptional circumstances of peculiar emergency or public importance.”
Julia Olson, co-executive director of Our Children’s Trust, a public interest law firm backing the youth plaintiffs, said in a statement Wednesday that “the Biden administration was wrong to use an emergency measure to stop youth plaintiffs from having their day in court.”
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