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U.S. loses bid to halt children's climate change lawsuit
« on: March 19, 2018, 03:45:39 pm »
U.S. loses bid to halt children's climate change lawsuit
Jonathan Stempel
MARCH 7, 2018 / 2:00 PM / 12 DAYS AGO
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-climatechange-lawsuit/u-s-loses-bid-to-halt-childrens-climate-change-lawsuit-idUSKCN1GJ2UO

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected the U.S. government’s bid to halt a lawsuit by young people claiming that President Donald Trump and his administration are violating their constitutional rights by ignoring the harms caused by climate change.

By a 3-0 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the administration had not met the “high bar” under federal law to dismiss the Oregon lawsuit, which was originally brought in 2015 against the administration of President Barack Obama.

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Twenty-one plaintiffs, now aged 10 to 21, accused federal officials and oil industry executives of knowing for decades that carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels destabilise the climate, but refusing to do anything about it.

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Re: U.S. loses bid to halt children's climate change lawsuit
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2018, 04:00:17 pm »
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Re: U.S. loses bid to halt children's climate change lawsuit
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2018, 04:03:52 pm »
Lol... what BS.
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Re: U.S. loses bid to halt children's climate change lawsuit
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2018, 04:29:30 pm »
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You know the puppetmasters using these children as pawns judge-shopped.
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Re: U.S. loses bid to halt children's climate change lawsuit
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2018, 04:48:38 pm »
Inmates running the asylum. 
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Re: U.S. loses bid to halt children's climate change lawsuit
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2018, 05:16:18 pm »
Whatever happened to the legal standard, "Failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted"???
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