State asks Montana Supreme Court to halt youth climate trial slated to start next week

A week before the Montana youth climate change trial is set to start, the state has asked the Montana Supreme Court to halt the trial and take supervisory control over the case on the basis the district court judge set to hear the trial made “a mistake of law” in allowing the case to go to trial.

The Montana Department of Justice on Monday filed the emergency petition for writ of supervisory control and stay with the state high court...