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The young people in Reynolds v. Florida.
A group of young people, ages 13 to 21, including a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, are suing Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Secretary of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried, and Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Noah Valenstein, among other officials, over climate change. The eight young people are asserting their right to a healthy future is at risk in the case known as Reynolds versus Florida.
On May 18. The First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee issued a very short opinion,
per curiam affirming the trial court’s ruling and rejecting
Reynolds v. Florida, for raising what judge Kevin J. Carroll wrote were “non-justiciable political questions” in the court s desition.