Following up on this item about Manhattan DA and (climate) lawfare pioneer, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the Court has sided with GAO’s position that various “climate” correspondence that Bragg’s Office withheld were not privileged and ordered them released, which Bragg’s Office then did. GAO has an outstanding FOIL request still in suit in Manhattan over […]
Month: June 2024
Schrödinger’s Professor
Following up on this item, Government Accountability & Oversight has filed its opposition to the University of Michigan’s motion seeking summary dismissal of GAO’s FOIA suit in GAO v. Regents. It seems that Assistant Professor of Law Rachel Rothschild’s work to develop a “Climate Change Superfund” is at the same time both very specifically a focus of her work for […]
Massachusetts AG Releases ‘SAAGs’ Guidelines… Sort of
The Massachusetts Office of Attorney General’s “Guidelines for Special Assistant Attorneys General” (think, Bloomberg-provided ‘SAAGs’, and the climate-plaintiffs’ law firms brought on by MA OAG for climate lawfare)—rather, the portion the public are allowed to see of an agreement not signed by anyone—is available here. You can glean the vibe from these excerpts. No indication […]
The Good Fellas Win in New Jersey
This item is cross-posted from govoversight.org Last year, GAO filed a New Jersey OPRA suit for the contract (and disclosures) between the Garden State’s Attorney General and climate-plaintiffs’ law firm Sher Edling, LLP—some very basic details the plaintiffs seem to be very concerned about the public seeing, whatever the jurisdiction, after a few arrangements made their way into the […]