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Detailed review explores fashions in climate change litigation

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/...he-courts/

EXCERPT: In 2015, a group of children filed a climate change lawsuit against the US government on the grounds that “through the government’s affirmative actions that cause climate change, it has violated the youngest generation’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property.” The case, often referred to as the Juliana case, is scheduled for trial in October this year.

Will this strategy work? Litigation involving climate change and environmental regulations has had mixed success over the years, but there are some common trends that could be informative. A paper published in Nature Climate Change this week combs through hundreds of lawsuits to tease out what kinds of strategies have been tried out, and what’s been successful. The paper found that pro-regulation lawsuits often have a hard time proving injury but still have a decent track record on cases involving renewable energy....

MORE: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/...he-courts/
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No, you cannot legally justify curtailing current freedoms to avoid an only possible loss of freedom in the future. The children have no legal standing...at least as yet...because potential harm is not legally actionable.
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