The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to extend a lifeline to a group of young people who have been suing the federal government over climate change for nearly a decade.
But the young challengers behind Juliana v. United States said they’ll be back at the high court next month with another bid to revive their landmark case.
In a short order issued Tuesday, the justices declined to grant the young activists a writ of mandamus, a rarely used tool that would have forced a federal appeals court to reverse a loss it delivered to the challengers in May. The Supreme Court offered no reasoning for its decision.
Our Children’s Trust, the Oregon-based law firm that represents the plaintiffs, had asked the justices in September to correct what it called an “egregious” error by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
