As Twitchy reported back in November 2015, a group of children as young as 8 organized as Our Children’s Trust filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration seeking “comprehensive, science-based legislation to return atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million by 2100.”
That lawsuit was tied up in the courts and eventually became the Trump administration’s problem to deal with.
And just when it looked like the Supreme Court only days ago was going to let the lawsuit go forward …
Science goes to court in climate-change lawsuit brought by…kids?! Yes. https://t.co/qF74lpgN8W pic.twitter.com/K8T0ZGHnh0
— SN Students (@SNStudents) November 16, 2018
US Supreme Court allows historic kids’ climate lawsuit to go forward https://t.co/7wys2Qrxi9
— moon batchelder (@pasupatidasi) November 19, 2018
… on Wednesday, a judge’s ruling ensured that the kids’ climate change lawsuit wouldn’t be going to trial anytime soon.
NEWS: The lawsuit known as the "kids' climate case" was officially halted today, after an order by a federal judge in Oregon.
Now we wait for a decision in the case (officially Juliana v. United States) from an appeals court in San Francisco.
— Benjamin J. Hulac (@benhulac) November 21, 2018
Judge Ann Aiken had greenlit the case and signaled she wished for trial to start. It was supposed to Oct. 29.
Today, Aiken wrote: "The Court does not make this decision lightly."
— Benjamin J. Hulac (@benhulac) November 21, 2018
Sorry, kids.
NEWS: Federal judge overseeing the kids' climate change case has bowed to the strong signals from #SCOTUS and even the 9th Circuit, granting interlocutory appeal — meaning, an immediate appeal of the decision allowing the unprecedented case to go to trial. https://t.co/ltJ2WtMVvo
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) November 21, 2018
The decision means the 3-year-old case will not be going to trial for the indefinite future. Here's my report on the #SCOTUS order that preceded today's order: https://t.co/PxbIlTSHeP
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) November 21, 2018
Trial of Kids Climate Change Lawsuit indefinitely postponed https://t.co/FYBFQEyevj
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) November 21, 2018
The so-called Kids Climate Change Lawsuit seeks to hold the U.S. government liable for climate change and to compel remedial action. Seriously.
It’s a ludicrous lawsuit that was supposed to go to trial in late October 2018, after surviving a motion to dismiss.
…
So the case is on hold pending review by the 9th Circuit, and eventually, the Supreme Court.
Which means, according to the drama of the lawsuit, we may not have a planet left.
I. Told. You. So. https://t.co/BMhCD7SKhG
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) November 21, 2018
Related:
Those brave climate kids suing Trump over global warming initially targeted President Obama https://t.co/EKS3RtPkW6
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 30, 2017
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