Komor v. United States

The federal district court for the District of Arizona granted federal defendants’ motion to stay a pro se plaintiff’s lawsuit asserting climate change-related claims. In its two-page order granting the motion, the court stayed the pro se action until Juliana is resolved in the federal district court in Oregon and established deadlines by which the plaintiff would have to act after resolution of Juliana in order to lift the stay.

The defendants sought to stay the case pending the Ninth Circuit’s resolution of the appeal in Juliana v. United States, arguing in their motion that a stay was appropriate given that the issues were “virtually identical” to those in Juliana.

Three of the Juliana plaintiffs moved to intervene in the pro se action, contending that the plaintiff had “substantially plagiarized” their complaint and that his lawsuit could adversely affect their case.