Litigation Efforts
JAI is preparing a climate litigation strategy to compel U.S. state governments to implement the transformative change required to avoid a total collapse of the Earth’s climate system.
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Press coverage OF JAI’s WORK ON THe issue of the climate breakdown
'AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA, PARTNERS INTERVENE IN LANDMARK YOUTH CLIMATE CASE CALLING FOR THE COURTS TO PLAY THEIR ROLE, PROTECT RIGHTS
Amnesty International — MARCH 13, 2020
A coalition of environmental and human rights organizations that includes Amnesty International USA, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW), as well as New York University School of Law’s Global Justice Clinic and four experts in international law, yesterday submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a rehearing on the Juliana v. United States climate case.
Counsel for the amicus brief were David Hunter, Attorney American University (Washington D.C.) and Dave Inder Comar, Business and Human Rights, Attorney (New York, San Francisco) and Executive Director of Just Atonement Inc.
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California Attorney General Urged to Take Action on Climate Through Climate Letter Filed by Just Atonement Inc.
Yahoo Finance — February 3, 2020
A group of international legal experts has filed a petition with the California Attorney General, asking that the Attorney General immediately take action against investor-held fossil fuel corporations to prevent a massive breakdown of the Earth's climate system.
The "climate letter" submitted to the California Attorney General demands that California place such corporations under court supervision to commence the process of stabilizing the climate and removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, with a goal of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees C by 2100.
The climate letter also demands that fossil fuel corporations pay restitution and compensation to state governments and developing countries for knowingly causing a climate breakdown and for imposing unprecedented financial damages and hardship, which is only now commencing.
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International lawyers vow to get tough on climate change producers
National Jurist — October 16, 2019
Some lawyers have had it with companies that they say are hurting the planet. This group of international lawyers has announced a new legal initiative to prevent the fossil fuel industry from triggering a massive breakdown of the climate system.
They want U.S. state attorneys generals to go after them.
The group, which includes preeminent legal experts on transnational corporations, climate change and human rights, intends to petition AGs to take action against investor-held fossil fuel corporations. They argue that the corporations that have known for decades that their products would trigger a breakdown of the planet's climate system.
JAI has litigated on the issue of the legality of the Iraq War and continues to seek avenues for relief to prevent further acts of global aggression by the great powers.
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Press coverage OF JAI’s WORK ON THe issue of the iraq war and international aggression
The United States' Assassination of Iranian Military Leader Violates International Law
Common Dreams — January 4, 2020
Under the UN Charter, Iran and the United States have a legal obligation to settle their disputes peacefully. As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, the United States has the ability at any time to discuss threats against it. It has chosen not to do this, instead using almost-certainly illegal force against another UN member country. The consequences will be grave.
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'THESE ARE DANGEROUS TIMES': THE MAN WHO SUED GEORGE W BUSH AND THE IRAQ WAR
The Guardian — March 11, 2017
"I’m really glad the court is challenging Trump in the immigration context. But, for whatever reason, when it comes to war and peace, in the US it’s just boxed away in another part of our brain. We just don’t question it. We need to have a conversation about why we’re always at war. And why we’re always doing it unilaterally."
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REMEMBERING THE COSTS OF THE IRAQ WAR IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
The Nation — January 5, 2017
Inder Comar, the plaintiffs’ attorney in Saleh v. Bush, a class-action lawsuit against Bush and other top administration officials, testified about the illegality of the Iraq War, how it constituted a war of aggression.