2017 Politics Precautionary Principle Sea Level 
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The court previously reached the same conclusion in December 2018, but the California Supreme Court directed it to reconsider the case in light of the Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Friends of the Eel River v. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and the Town of Saugus had appealed the MassDEP’s decision. California v. Bernhardt , No.
Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”
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