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AMICUS CURIAE (“FRIEND OF THE COURT”) BRIEFS

MARCH 13, 2020 - NATIONAL AND GLOBAL EXPERTS FILE BRIEFS IN SUPPORT OF
JULIANA V. UNITED STATES YOUTH-LED CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION

Amicus Brief of Children’s Rights Advocates
Amicus Brief of Environmental Law Experts and Advocates
Amicus Brief of International Human Rights Legal Experts and Advocates
Amicus Brief of Korematsu Center and Civil Rights Experts
Amicus Brief of Members of U.S. Congress
Amicus Brief of Constitutional Law Experts
Amicus Brief of League of Women Voters and National Children’s Campaign
Amicus Brief of Public Health Experts
Amicus Brief of U.S. Surgeons General
Amicus Brief of Juliana Expert Witnesses

AMICUS CURIAE (“FRIEND OF THE COURT”) BRIEFS

MARCH 1, 2019 - Groups Supporting Juliana v. UNITED STATES Plaintiffs Urge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to Allow Juliana v. United States to Go to Trial

Brief for Businesses (Guayaki, Royal Blue Organics, Organically Grown Company, Coconut Bliss, Hummingbird Wholesale, Aspen Skiing Company, Protect Our Winters, National Ski Areas Association, Snowsports Industries America, and American Sustainable Business Council)
Brief for Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL); Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW)
Brief for Earthjustice on behalf of Earth Rights International, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Union of Concerned Scientists
Brief for Eco-Justice Ministries
Brief for 78 Environmental Historians
Brief for Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, & Greenpeace
Brief for International Lawyers for International Law
Brief for 82 Law Professors
Brief for League of Women Voters
Brief for Members of U.S. Congress - Senators: Whitehouse, Merkley, Wyden
Reps. DeFazio, Blumenauer, Haaland, Tlaib
Brief for Niskanen Center
Brief for Public Health Experts (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; American Academy of Pediatrics; American Association of Community Psychiatrists; American Heart Association; American Lung Association; American Pediatric Society; American Thoracic Society; Infectious Diseases Society of America; International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment; Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health; National Association of County and City Health Officials; National Environmental Health Association; National Medical Association; and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine; and 78 individual doctors)
Brief for Sierra Club
Brief for Sunrise Movement
Brief for Zero Hour

AMICUS CURIAE (“FRIEND OF THE COURT”) BRIEFS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017 - Groups Supporting Juliana v. UNITED STATES Plaintiffs Urge Dismissal of Trump's Mandamus PetitioN

Brief for Food & Water Watch, Inc., Friends of the Earth
Brief for Niskanen Center
Brief for Center for International Environmental Law, and Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
Brief for League of Women Voters
Brief for Earthjustice, EarthRights International, Defenders of Wildlife, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Center for Biological Diversity
Brief for 63 Law Professors including Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
Brief for Sierra Club
Brief for Global Catholic Climate Movement, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Interfaith Power and Light, The Sisters of Mercy of the Americas’ Institute Leadership Team, Sisters of Mercy Northeast Leadership Team, Interfaith Moral Action on Climate, Franciscan Action Network, The National Religious Coalition for Creation Care and Interfaith Oceans, The Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions, Eco-Justice Ministries, San Francisco Zen Center, The Shalom Center, GreenFaith, The Office of Apostolic Action & Advocacy, Christian life Community-USA, and Quaker Earth Witness

AMICUS CURIAE (“FRIEND OF THE COURT”) BRIEFS

PRIOR AMICUS CURIAE BRIEFS

Brief for League of Women Voters as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs, Juliana v. United States, No. 6:15-cv-1517-TC (D. Or. Sept. 12, 2016).
Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants, Chernaik v. Brown, No. A159826 (Or. Ct. App. Feb. 26, 2016).
Brief for John Davidson as Amicus Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs, Juliana v. United States, No. 6:15-cv-1517-TC (D. Or. Feb. 24, 2016).
Brief for Global Catholic Climate Movement and Leadership Council of Women Religious as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs, Juliana v. United States, No. 6:15-cv-1517-TC (D. Or. Jan. 15, 2016).
Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants, N. Carolina ex rel. N. Carolina Dept. of Admin v. Alcoa Power Generating, Inc., No. 5:13-cv-633-BO (N.C. Ct. App. Apr. 7, 2016).
Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Appellants, Akilah Sanders-Reed v. Susan Martinez, No. 33,110 (N. M. Ct. App. Mar. 27, 2014).
Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Plaintiffs-Appellants, Alec L. v. Gina McCarthy, No. 13-5192 (D.C. Cir. Nov. 12, 2014).

LEGAL ARTICLES & REPORTS

Claire Osborn-Wright, Lest We Be Lemmings (2024).
Julia Olson, Children’s Rights to a Life-Sustaining Climate: The Foundational Rule of Law to Achieve Sustainable Abundance for Humanity (2023).
Andrea Rodgers, Julia Olson and Eric Laschever, Climate Justice and the Public Trust: The Plaintiffs’ Perspective (2022).
Nate Bellinger & Roger Sullivan, A Judicial Duty: Interpreting and Enforcing Montanan's Inalienable Right to a Clean and Healthful Environment (2022).
Andrea Rodgers, Lauren E. Sancken & Jennifer Marlow, The Injustice of 1.5℃-2℃: The Need for a Scientifically Based Standard of Fundamental Rights Protection in Constitutional Climate Change Cases (2022).
Sen. Franklin L. Kury, John C. Dernbach, Julia Olson, and Barry E. Hill, The Constitutional Right to Save the Environment (2022).
Paul Rink, Andrea Rodgers, and Philip L. Gregory, Children, Climate and Constitutional Rights: Juliana v. United States (2021).
Our Children's Trust Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights and Climate Change (2020).
Michael C. Blumm & Mary C. Wood, ‘No Ordinary Lawsuit’: Climate Change, Due Process, and the Public Trust Doctrine, 67 Am. U. L. Rev. 1 (2017).
Mary Christina Wood & Charles W. Woodward, IV, Atmospheric Trust Litigation and the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Climate System: Judicial Recognition at Last, 6 Wash. J. Envtl. L. & Pol’y 634 (2016).
Keely Boom, Julie-Anne Richards & Stephen Leonard, Climate Justice: The International Momentum Towards Climate Litigation, Climate Justice Programme Report (2016).
Roger Cox, The Decision of the Hague District Court in the Climate Case Urgenda Foundation v The State of the Netherlands, 2016 J. Plan. & Envtl. L. 323 (2016).
Karl S. Coplan, Fossil Fuel Abolition: Legal and Social Issues, 41 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 223 (2016).
Alfred T. Goodwin, A Wake-Up Call for Judges, 2015 Wis. L. Rev. 785 (2015).
Alexander Bukac, Fracking and the Public Trust Doctrine: The Land is Their Land, but After Robinson, Might This Land Really Be Our Land?, 49 U.S.F. L. Rev. 261 (2015).
Mary Christina Wood & Dan Galpern, Atmospheric Recovery Litigation: Making the Fossil Fuel Industry Pay to Restore a Viable Climate System, 45 Envtl. L. 259 (2015).
Michael C. Blumm & Lynn S. Schaffer, The Federal Public Trust Doctrine: Misinterpreting Justice Kennedy and Illinois Central Railroad, 45 Envtl. L. 399 (2015).
John C. Dernbach, The Potential Meanings of a Constitutional Public Trust, 45 Envtl. L. 463 (2015).
Gerald Torres, Joe Sax and the Public Trust, 45 Envtl. L. 379 (2015).
Gerald Torres & Nathan Bellinger, The Public Trust: The Law’s DNA, 4 Wake Forest J. L. & Pol’y 281 (2014).
Kylie Wha Kyung Wager, In Common Law We Trust: How Hawai’i’s Public Trust Doctrine Can Support Atmospheric Trust Litigation to Address Climate Change, 20 Hastings W.-Nw. J. Envt'l L. & Pol'y 55 (2014).
Bradley Freedman & Emily Shirley, England and the Public Trust Doctrine, 2014 J. Plan. & Envtl. L. 839 (2014).
Roger Cox, The Liability of European States for Climate Change, 2014 J. Plan. & Envtl. L. 961 (2014).
Patrick C. McGinley, Climate Change and the Public Trust Doctrine, 65 Plan. & Envtl. L. 7 (2013).
Michael C. Blumm & Rachel D. Guthrie, Internationalizing the Public Trust Doctrine: Natural Law and Constitutional and Statutory Approaches to Fulfilling the Saxion Vision, 45 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 741 (2012).
Gregory S. Munro, The Public Trust Doctrine and the Montana Constitution as Legal Bases for Climate Change Litigation in Montana, 73 Mont. L. Rev. 123 (2012).
Mary Christina Wood, Atmospheric Trust Litigation Across the World, in Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust (Ken Coghill, Charles Sampford, Tim Smith, eds., 2012).
Crystal S. Chase, The Illinois Central Public Trust Doctrine and Federal Common Law: An Unconventional View, 16 Hastings W.-Nw. J. Envtl. L. & Pol'y 113 (2010).
Karl S. Coplan, Public Trust Limits on Greenhouse Gas Trading Scheme: A Sustainable Middle Ground?, 35 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 287 (2010).
Mary Turnipseed, Robert Sagarin, Peter Barnes, Michael C. Blumm, Patrick Parenteau & Peter H. Sand, Reinvigorating the Public Trust Doctrine: Expert Opinion on the Potential of a Public Trust Mandate in U.S. and International Environmental Law, 52 Env’t 6 (2010).
Mary Christina Wood, Advancing the Sovereign Trust of Government to Safeguard the Environment for Present and Future Generations (Part I): Ecological Realism and the Need for a Paradigm Shift, 39 Envtl. L. 43 (2009).
Mary Christina Wood, Advancing the Sovereign Trust of Government to Safeguard the Environment for Present and Future Generations (Part II): Instilling a Fiduciary Obligation in Governance, 39 Envtl. L. 91 (2009).
David Takacs, The Public Trust Doctrine, Environmental Human Rights, and the Future of Private Property, 16 N.Y.U. Envtl. L. J. 11 (2008).
Gerald Torres, Who Owns the Sky?, 19 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 515 (2002).
Charles F. Wilkinson, The Headwaters of the Public Trust: Some Thoughts on the Source and Scope of the Traditional Doctrine, 19 Envtl. L. 425 (1989).
Joseph L. Sax, Liberating the Public Trust Doctrine from Its Historical Shackles, 14 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 185 (1980).
Joseph L. Sax, The Public Trust Doctrine in Natural Resources Law: Effective Judicial Intervention, 68 Mich. L. Rev. 471 (1970).

AMICUS CURIAE (“FRIEND OF THE COURT”) BRIEFS

August 10, 2023 - Our Children’s Trust Attorneys File Amicus Brief in Support of Willow Project Lawsuits

Amicus Brief of Our Children’s Trust in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgement

AMICUS CURIAE (“FRIEND OF THE COURT”) BRIEFS

JULY 6-13, 2021 - STATES AND THE Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Virginia File Amicus Briefs in Support of JULIANA V. UNITED STATES Youth-Led Climate Litigation

Amicus Brief for New York, Delaware, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon and Vermont
Amicus Brief for Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

August 26, 2022 - Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action File Amicus Brief in Support of Layla H. v. Commonwealth of Virginia Youth-Led Climate Litigation

Amicus Brief for Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action

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October 4, 2023 - Human Rights Organizations, Children’s Rights Advocates, Legal Scholars File Amicus Briefs in Support of Natalie R. v. State of Utah

Amicus Brief for Utah Chapter — American Academy of Pediatrics, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, Utah Moms for Clean Air and Voices for Utah Children
Amicus Brief for American Civil Liberties Union of Utah and American Civil Liberties Union
Amicus Brief for Group of 37 Law Professors from 25 Law Schools

AMICUS CURIAE (“FRIEND OF THE COURT”) BRIEFS

December 10, 2023 - Our Children’s Trust, the University Network for Human Rights, and Defensa Ambiental del Noroeste File Amicus Brief to Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on Climate Emergency and Human Rights

Amicus Brief for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

AMICUS CURIAE (“FRIEND OF THE COURT”) BRIEFS

January 5, 2024 - Our Children’s Trust Files Amicus Brief in Willow Project Appeals In support of Plaintiffs in Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic, et al. v. Bureau of Land Management, et al. and Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Bureau of Land Management, et al.

Amicus Brief for Our Children’s Trust in Willow Project Appeals

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January 17, 2024 - Our Children’s Trust Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of 16 Children’s Legal Rights Scholars in Support of Neither Party in Trump v. Anderson

Amicus Brief for Our Children’s Trust to U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. Anderson

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March 13-April 4, 2024 - Several organizations, Experts and Retired Montana Supreme Court Justices File Amicus Briefs in Support of Held v. State of Montana

Amicus Brief for Former Justices
Amicus Brief for Public Health Experts and Doctors
Amicus Brief for Children’s Rights Advocates
Amicus Brief for Tribal and Conservation Groups
Amicus Brief for National Law Professor and Leaders in Environmental Rights
Amicus Brief for Outdoor Recreation Industry Members
Amicus Brief for Montana Trial Lawyers Association
Amicus Brief for the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana and American Civil Liberties Union
Amicus Brief for Native Nations in Montana, Kathryn Shanley and Denise Juneau
Amicus Brief for Montana Outdoor Athletes
Amicus Brief for Montana Interfaith Power & Light

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March 28, 2024 - 30 Members of Congress file Amicus Brief in Support of Juliana v. U.S. HEADING TO TRIAL

Amicus Brief for Members of Congress on Petition for a Writ of Mandamus

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JUNE 27-28, 2024 - Members of Congress, Children’s Rights Scholars, Law Professors, & More File Amicus Briefs in Support of Juliana v. U.S. seeking en banc review

Amicus Brief for UC Irvine Law School Civil Rights Litigation Clinic and UCLA Human Rights Litigation Clinic
Amicus Brief for International Experts on Climate Rights and Remedies
Amicus Brief for Members of Congress
Amicus Brief for Professors
Amicus Brief for Children's Rights and Social Justice Advocates
Amicus Brief for Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, et al.

DECLARATIONS

AUGUST 12, 2024 - Nobel Laureate Economist, Legal Scholar, Sociologist, Mental Health Professional, Attorney, & YOUTH PLAINTIFFS FILE DECLARATIONS IN SUPPORT OF GENESIS V. EPA, OPPOSING THE EPA’S MOTION TO DISMISS

Declaration of Joseph E. Stiglitz, PhD
Declaration of Liliana Doganova, PhD
Declaration of Andrew Bradt
Declaration of Elizabeth Pinksy, MD
Declaration of Julia A. Olson
Declaration of Plaintiff Avroh S.
Declaration of Plaintiff Noah C.
Declaration of Maryam D.

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AUGUST 15, 2024 - Legal Scholars and Medical Professionals File Amicus Briefs in Support of Layla H. v. Commonwealth of Virginia

Amicus Brief for Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action
Amicus Brief for Public Trust Law Professors

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AMICUS CURIAE (“FRIEND OF THE COURT”) BRIEFS

MARCH 13, 2020 - NATIONAL AND GLOBAL EXPERTS FILE BRIEFS IN SUPPORT OF JULIANA V. UNITED STATES YOUTH-LED CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION

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MARCH 1, 2019 - Groups Supporting Juliana v. UNITED STATES Plaintiffs Urge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to Allow Juliana v. United States to Go to Trial

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017 - Groups Supporting Juliana v. UNITED STATES Plaintiffs Urge Dismissal of Trump's Mandamus PetitioN

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August 10, 2023 - Our Children’s Trust Attorneys File Amicus Brief in Support of Willow Project Lawsuits

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JULY 6-13, 2021 - STATES AND THE Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Virginia File Amicus Briefs in Support of JULIANA V. UNITED STATES Youth-Led Climate Litigation

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August 26, 2022 - Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action File Amicus Brief in Support of Layla H. v. Commonwealth of Virginia Youth-Led Climate Litigation

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October 4, 2023 - Human Rights Organizations, Children’s Rights Advocates, Legal Scholars File Amicus Briefs in Support of Natalie R. v. State of Utah

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December 10, 2023 - Our Children’s Trust, the University Network for Human Rights, and Defensa Ambiental del Noroeste File Amicus Brief to Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on Climate Emergency and Human Rights

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January 5, 2024 - Our Children’s Trust Files Amicus Brief in Willow Project Appeals In support of Plaintiffs in Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic, et al. v. Bureau of Land Management, et al. and Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. Bureau of Land Management, et al.

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January 17, 2024 - Our Children’s Trust Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of 16 Children’s Legal Rights Scholars in Support of Neither Party in Trump v. Anderson

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March 13-April 4, 2024 - Several organizations, Experts and Retired Montana Supreme Court Justices File Amicus Briefs in Support of Held v. State of Montana

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March 28, 2024 - 30 Members of Congress file Amicus Brief in Support of Juliana v. U.S. HEADING TO TRIAL

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JUNE 27-28, 2024 - Members of Congress, Children’s Rights Scholars, Law Professors, & More File Amicus Briefs in Support of Juliana v. U.S. seeking en banc review

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DECLARATIONS

AUGUST 12, 2024 - Nobel Laureate Economist, Legal Scholar, Sociologist, Mental Health Professional, Attorney, & YOUTH PLAINTIFFS FILE DECLARATIONS IN SUPPORT OF GENESIS V. EPA, OPPOSING THE EPA’S MOTION TO DISMISS

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AUGUST 15, 2024 - Legal Scholars and Medical Professionals File Amicus Briefs in Support of Layla H. v. Commonwealth of Virginia

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MARCH 13, 2020 - NATIONAL AND GLOBAL EXPERTS FILE BRIEFS IN SUPPORT OF
JULIANA V. UNITED STATES YOUTH-LED CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION