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Farb v. Kansas

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / Kansas
Year
2012
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Farb v. Kansas

About this case

Filing year
2012
Status
Memorandum decision and order issued granting motion to dismiss.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → Kansas
Docket number
12-C-1133
Court/admin entity
United States → State Courts → Kansas District Court (Kan. Dist. Ct.)
Case category
Public Trust Claims (US)
Principal law
United States → Public Trust Doctrine
At issue
Lawsuit alleging that state had responsibility under public trust doctrine to prevent climate change.
Topics
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Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
Topics 
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06/04/2013
Memorandum decision and order issued granting motion to dismiss.
Decision
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10/18/2012
Petition for declaratory judgment, for writ of mandamus, and application for injunctive relief filed.
Our Children’s Trust, an environmental group, filed a lawsuit in Kansas claiming that the state had an obligation to help prevent climate change and to reduce carbon dioxide emissions under the public trust doctrine. The group had filed a series of lawsuits and petitions in several states, requesting that the environmental agencies in these states adopt rules to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels pursuant to the public trust doctrine.
Petition
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Summary

Lawsuit alleging that state had responsibility under public trust doctrine to prevent climate change.

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Group
Topics
Target
Policy instrument
Risk
Impacted group
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Adaptation/resilience
Finance