Month: April 2020

Same two sets of notes from July Rockefeller-hosted meeting, confessing the revenue-raising motive, at were recently accepted by 1st Circuit over objection by plaintiff’s tort counsel WASHINGTON, D.C., April 30, 2020 – The transparency group Energy Policy Advocates (“EPA”) today filed a Friend of the Court brief with the Supreme Court of the United States in BP P.L.C. et al. v. Mayor […]

AGO hiding at least four contracts giving other states’ AGs veto power over Virginians’ right to see Virginia public records, claiming the secrecy pacts themselves are secret CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, April 29, 2020 – Today the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed suit against the Virginia Office of the Attorney General […]

AGO entered at least six contracts giving other states’ AGs veto power over Vermonters’ right to see Vermont public records, forcing requesters to sue; claims the pacts themselves are secret MONTPELIER, VT, April 27, 2020 – Today the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed suit against the Vermont Office of the Attorney […]

The Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity’s CEO Mike Stenhouse had Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. attorney Chris Horner on his “In the Dugout” show this week, to discuss Energy Policy Advocates’ spectacular findings recently presented to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. You can watch the show here. 

Energy Policy Advocates, through local counsel Upper Midwest Law Center and James Dickey of Helmuth & Johnson, filed its memorandum of law in an open records lawsuit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.  Ellison’s Office has quietly added not one but two privately hired, Michael Bloomberg-funded “Special Assistant Attorneys General” to pursue issues of concern […]