Supreme Court for Now Won’t Halt Youths’ Climate-Change Trial (1)

Nov. 2, 2018, 11:36 PM UTCUpdated: Nov. 3, 2018, 2:29 AM UTC

The U.S. Supreme Court refused, for now, to stop a trial in a sweeping lawsuit pressed by young people seeking to force the federal government to take steps against climate change.

The order Nov. 2, which came over two dissents, rejected a Trump administration bid. But it said the administration could return to a federal appeals court and ask it to stop the case from going forward in a federal court in Oregon. The justices also didn’t preclude another Supreme Court request later.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch said they would have stopped the trial immediately. The three-page unsigned ...

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