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Climate change trial now faces long delay

by Lyle Denniston

Seeming to suggest that higher courts have left no other choice, a federal trial judge in Eugene, Ore., ordered a months-long…

Climate change trial now faces long delay
Trump team makes final plea to end climate case

by Lyle Denniston

Escalating its rhetoric in a final plea to the Supreme Court to shut down an imminent trial on the federal government’s role in…

Trump team makes final plea to end climate case
Climate change case blocked — for now

by Lyle Denniston

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., on Friday evening ordered at least a temporary halt in a children’s lawsuit seeking to hold…

Climate change case blocked — for now
Trump team wants kids’ climate case shut down now

by Lyle Denniston

The Trump Administration, out of patience with lower courts’ handling of a sweeping, three-year-old lawsuit demanding that the…

Trump team wants kids’ climate case shut down now
Trump climate appeal at Supreme Court today

by Lyle Denniston

Lawyers for the Trump Administration plan to ask the Supreme Court on Wednesday to halt a trial set to begin in two weeks of a…

Trump climate appeal at Supreme Court today
Judge clears way for trial of kids’ climate change case

by Lyle Denniston

A federal trial judge in Oregon said on Monday that a group of teenagers is entitled to a court test of their claim about a…

Judge clears way for trial of kids’ climate change case
Climate change in the courts: Big Oil and Big Tobacco

by Lana Ulrich

State officials say fossil fuel companies are defrauding the public. But in their zeal to win, are they violating constitutional…

Constitution Check: How goes the kids’ constitutional crusade against climate change?

by Lyle Denniston

Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, looks at the public trust doctrine, an…

Earth Day, politics and the law

by Jonathan Stahl

Friday, April 22nd marks not only the 46th Earth Day, but also is when the United States and China will be formally signing the…

Constitution Check: Does the “Clean Power Plan” violate the Tenth Amendment?

by Lyle Denniston

Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, looks at a debate over states’ rights and…

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