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US District Judge Ann Aiken ordered attorneys for plaintiffs and for the Department of Justice to meet for a settlement conference with Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin in the climate suit Juliana v United States.
Aiken said she thinks it’s “a tremendous opportunity” and she said she hopes parties don’t see this just as a “ministerial step”.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Julia Olson said they’re happy to do so. Juliana v United States was filed in 2015. It argues the federal government knowingly supported the fossil fuel industry and took actions to contribute to the climate crisis. The 21 plaintiffs now range in age from 13 to 25 years old. The settlement meeting will take place within the next six weeks.
Former fugitive accused in 2001 eco-terror case pleads not guilty in Sacramento court
Sacramento Bee 5/6/2021 Sam Stanton, The Sacramento Bee
May 5 Twenty years after suspected eco-terrorists set fire to a horse corral at a federal facility near Susanville, a one-time international fugitive charged in a case alleging numerous arson attacks nationwide pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Sacramento federal court.
Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, 53, who was apprehended in 2018 in Havana as he prepared to board a flight to Russia, entered the plea during a Zoom appearance in court on a 2006 federal grand jury indictment charging him with arson and conspiracy to commit arson in the corral fire.
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Joe Dibee is portrayed while sitting on steps leading to his family s home on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, in Seattle. Credit: KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer
The many lives of Joseph Dibee, codename Seattle By
The former international fugitive, a graduate of Garfield High School, is stuck in Seattle.
In the 1990s, some knew Joseph Mahmoud Dibee as âSeattle.â It was his codename, according to his FBI wanted poster.
Today, the former international fugitive is stuck in Seattle, confined by a house-arrest order and awaiting trial on federal charges, including allegations he participated in an arson at a Central Oregon slaughterhouse in 1997.
At times, the federal government has portrayed fringe actors in the environmental and animal rights movement as among the most significant terrorist threats facing the United States.