ASBC had helped draft and push forward on a business Amicus Brief in
the Julianna V. United States working with our Children’s Trust
Here is the latest update
Julianna V. United States
On January 17,
2020, a divided Ninth Circuit Court issued an order on the
interlocutory appeal. In their ruling, the Court recognized the
gravity of the evidence on the youth plaintiffs’ injuries from
climate change and the government’s role in causing them. Yet,
while it found the government is violating the plaintiffs’
constitutional rights, two of the three judges said that
addressing the youth plaintiffs’ requested remedies should be
addressed by the executive and legislative branches. The third
judge affirmed the youths’ constitutional climate rights, writing
“our nation is crumbling – at our governments’ own hand – into a
wasteland.” Counsel for the youth plaintiffs will now request
that the full 9th Circuit review this decision.
