Pacific Legal Foundation
Amicus Curiae
M. Reed Hopper, Counsel of Record Pacific Legal Foundation is a nonprofitlegal foundation advocating limited government, individual rights, and freeenterprise. M. Reed Hopper is theprincipal attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation’s Environmental Law PracticeGroup. He received his law degree from the University of the Pacific in 1987.The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for theRespondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on October 24, 2006. This case isnot a referendum on global warming. This Court need not pass judgment onwhether the climate change phenomenon is real or conjectural, natural ormanmade, or benign or cataclysmic. Instead, this…