Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate Change

Re:Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate ... by akerro on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:56AM (#12965975)

So let's sue government for rapist and murderers to end it?

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Re:Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate ... by cauterized on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @07:27AM (#12966360)

If the government were not enforcing existing laws against rape and murder, damn right there would be lawsuits.

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Re:Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate ... by lostcolony on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @08:48AM (#12966774)

Or if the government was allowing the laws to prevent rape and murder to be written by lobbyists for rapists and murderers.

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Re:Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate ... by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:48AM (#12967977)

Speak of the devil...

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Re:Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate ... by kwhitefoot on Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:41AM (#12976515)

If there were no laws or no enforcement of laws against such things you would certainly sue (especially in the original sense of to plead and make arguments for a point).

The US is a uniquely litigious country so going through the court system in an adversarial sense makes perfect sense. In The UK system you might instead ask a court to determine who or which state organ has responsibility to fix the problem or who has authority to do something. See for instance the judgement on the Brexit case: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/judg....

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