KELSEY CASCADIA ROSE JULIANA, et al., v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A federal judge in Oregon saved the landmark Juliana climate suit in a recent ruling, finding that proposed amendments to the complaint will surmount the deficiencies previously identified by the Ninth Circuit. The case, brought by a group of young people between the ages of eight and nineteen, “allege[s] injury from the devastation of climate change and contend[s] that the Constitution guarantees the right to a stable climate system capable of sustaining human life.” The recent ruling finds that the plaintiffs’ efforts to seek declaratory relief that the United States’ national energy system has violated plaintiffs’ constitutional rights, “is squarely within the constitutional and statutory power of Article III courts to grant.”
[To accompany Federal Court Case Law Update " Landmark Juliana Climate Case Revived by Federal Judge” from Brooks Animal Law Digest Issue No. 192]