Litigation
Sep. 30, 2011
Suit claims U.S. violating public trust in failure to curb climate change
Fed up with the lack of a comprehensive push to curb climate change, a group of children is pushing a novel legal argument in court - that the government is failing in its duty to protect the earth's atmosphere.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Fed up with the lack of a comprehensive push to curb climate change, lawyers for a group of children are pushing a novel legal argument in court - that the government is failing in its duty to protect the earth's atmosphere.
This week, lawyers for the plaintiffs filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in San Francisco federal court seeking to force the government to come up with a climate recov...
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