Alvin Bragg at it again? Curious FOIL denial on heels of recently released details of now-Manhattan DA’s involvement in activists’ enlistment of NY OAG to use Martin Act to investigate political opponents as climate criminals What GAO sought, now in suit in New York What’s there that you can’t see
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Energy Policy Advocates v. Regents (UCLA Law School)
CLW has been informed that the court in Energy Policy Advocates v. Regents—a California Public Records Act lawsuit seeking the UCLA Law School, Wells Environmental Law Clinic contract for providing clinical instruction with the “climate” plaintiffs’ tort from Sher Edling—has ruled, denying EPA’s request. CLW has not yet seen the opinion, but is informed that […]
DC Circuit Hears Argument re: Transparency When Congress Transgresses
Argument before federal appeals court panel examines whether public can see correspondence pertaining to donor-provided ‘staff’ to drive investigation of political opponents in aid of outside interests CLW readers are familiar with Schilling v. Speaker, the common law right of access lawsuit seeking records about the sordid affair of House Oversight Committee Chair Maloney and […]
“Mommy, where do state AG ‘theories of the case’ come from?”
It ain’t the stork. Following on this blockbuster revelation, the New York Attorney General abruptly changed course, having first helpfully waved a big flag that it was hiding something that must look very, very bad. This is the redacted (wait what?) June release of a Lee Wasserman/Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) email to NYAG asking it […]
All the Climate Contracts We Cannot See
Add the District of Columbia to the jurisdictions that will not release contracts for filing ‘contingency fee’ climate lawsuits which— the public record provides more than ample reason to conclude— are already being privately financed. As GAO’s request makes clear in this instance, there’s not only no good reason for this but it runs contrary […]