2026-08-12 04:20:25
The federal court system will not give a youth-led constitutional climate lawsuit additional consideration
after a panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a petition to rehear the case before the full circuit.
Lighthiser v. Trump is one of a series of youth-led climate change lawsuits brought by Our Children’s Trust,
an Oregon-based advocacy law firm, which also successfully litigated Held v. Montana in 2023,
a landmark climate case that found the Mon…











