Massachusetts: Divestment Suit Thrown Out

A state judge has thrown out a brought by students seeking to force the school to remove investments in fossil fuel companies from its endowment. The suit asked courts to compel divestment on behalf of the students and “future generations.” Justice Paul D. Wilson of Superior Court wrote that the students had no standing to sue the school or the other defendant, the state attorney general. The students, he wrote, “have brought their advocacy, fervent and articulate and admirable as it is, to a forum that cannot grant the relief they seek.”

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