Divided 9th Circuit Panel Orders Dismissal Of Youths’ Climate Change Suit

Mealey's (January 17, 2020, 2:44 PM EST) -- PORTLAND, Ore. — A 2-1 panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 17 overturned a federal judge in Oregon’s ruling denying dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a number of youths and an environmental group claiming that the federal government knew about the association between climate change and the burning of fossil fuels, finding that they lacked standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution because a court cannot redress their injuries (Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al., No. 18-36082, 9th Cir.)....