{"id":381781,"date":"2018-10-20T18:53:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/supreme-court-halts-youth-climate-case-after-trump-effort-to-kill-suit\/"},"modified":"2018-10-20T18:53:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:53:57","slug":"supreme-court-halts-youth-climate-case-after-trump-effort-to-kill-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/supreme-court-halts-youth-climate-case-after-trump-effort-to-kill-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Halts Youth Climate Case After Trump Effort to Kill Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a move author and activist Naomi Klein denounced as \u201cdisgraceful and enraging<\/a>,\u201d the US Supreme Court has halted a lawsuit brought by 21 American children and young adults that aims to hold the federal government accountable for its ongoing failure to adequately curb greenhouse gas emissions to battle the global climate crisis.<\/p>\n

The decision came in response to a last-ditch effort by the Trump administration to kill the \u201cpotentially landmark<\/a>\u201d case ahead of the trial slated to begin in the US District Court for the District of Oregon on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n

The case has been tied up in the legal system for three years. Just this week, District Court Judge Ann Aiken reaffirmed that the youth plaintiffs can credibly claim that the government has violated their due process rights. The Supreme Court, however, stayed discovery and the trial in an order<\/a> (pdf) issued Friday, demanding a response from the plaintiffs\u2019 legal counsel by Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Michael Gerrard, director of Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia, <\/span>called <\/a>the move \u201chighly unusual\u201d and \u201creminiscent of their stay of the Clean Power Plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farron Cousins, a radio host and executive editor of The Trial Lawyer <\/span>magazine, tied the development to the upcoming midterms, tweeting:<\/p>\n

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There was one glimmer of hope this week when this case was allowed to proceed to trial, and in an instant, this guy took it away. Future generations are getting screwed, and I hope they remember who did this. Vote like your life depends on it! https:\/\/t.co\/F9XElM9iW3<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Farron Cousins (@farronbalanced) October 20, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While the high court\u2019s one-page order provoked public outrage, Julia Olson of Our Children\u2019s Trust, co-counsel for the youth plaintiffs, remained optimistic and said the team plans to file their reply on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are confident once Chief [John] Justice Roberts and the full court receive the youth plaintiffs\u2019 response to…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a move author and activist Naomi Klein denounced as \u201cdisgraceful and enraging,\u201d the US Supreme Court has halted a lawsuit brought by 21 American children and young adults that aims to hold the federal government accountable for its ongoing failure to adequately curb greenhouse gas emissions to battle the global climate crisis. The decision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}