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    On June 1, 2022, 13 young people from Hawai‘i filed a constitutional climate lawsuit against their state government and the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation (HDOT).

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    The People

    Meet the plaintiffs, their legal team, experts, and the defendants in Navahine v. Hawai‘i Department of Transportation.

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    Navahine v. Hawai’i DOT hit headlines locally, nationally, and globally. Read select coverage.

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Our Children’s Trust

  • Andrea Rodgers
  • Joanna Zeigler
  • Julia Olson
  • Laura Mebert
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Earthjustice

  • Isaac Moriwake
  • Kylie Wager Cruz
  • Leinā‘ala L. Ley
  • Navahine F.
  • Charlotte M.
  • ʻIlikea N.
  • Kalālapa W.
  • Kalikookalani T.
  • Kaʻōnohi P.
  • Kawena F.
  • Kū Kapu
  • Mesina D.
  • Pahonu C.
  • Rylee Brooke K.
  • Seed L.
  • Taliya N.
  • Catherine Smith, J.D.
  • Daniel Sperling, Ph.D.
  • Greg Asner, Ph.D.
  • Jeff Mikulina
  • Kealoha Fox, Ph.D.
  • Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
  • Mark Z. Jacobson, Ph.D.
  • Michael Replogle
  • Rosanna ʻAnolani Alegado, Ph.D.
  • Steve Running, Ph.D.

Legal team

As advocates, our job is to make sure children’s voices are heard in courts of law. The Navahine legal team are Andrea Rodgers, Joanna Zeigler, Julia Olson, Phil Gregory, and Laura Mebert with Our Children’s Trust and Kylie Wager Cruz and Isaac Moriwake with Earthjustice.

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Phil Gregory

Since our founding in 2010, Phil Gregory has served as Of Counsel with Our Children’s Trust on a pro bono basis, all while maintaining his litigation practice with the Gregory Law Group based in Woodside, California.

Among his work for Our Children’s Trust, Phil serves as co-lead counsel in our federal cases, Juliana v. United States and Genesis v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as well as co-trial counsel in Navahine v. Hawaiʻi Dept. of Transportation and co-lead trial counsel in Held v. State of Montana.  

He is a Master of the Bench and former past President with the Hon. William Ingram American Inn of Court. He is also a Fellow with the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, a member with the American Board of Trial Advocates, and consistently selected as Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Attorney. For 18 years in a row, Phil has been recognized as a Super Lawyer by superlawyer.com. Phil obtained his JD and MBA from Santa Clara University, and BA from Bowdoin College. 

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The Washington Post August 14, 2023 Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision Bowdoin September 11, 2023 Attorney Phil Gregory ’76 Notches Historic Climate Victory for Young People
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