Following up on this post, CLW has tracked down this opinion out of the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, referenced in online news reports. It is something to behold. Here are a couple of bread crumbs to follow to find one-half, the more substantively important half, of what has the court […]
Climate Contracts, Cont.
California’s Department of Justice has taken a different approach to bringing in outside counsel to help with its entry in the climate litigation sweepstakes —a “Lawsuit [that] is potentially worth many billions of dollars.” Rather than granting a firm a ‘standard’ (i.e., potentially massive), ‘contingency‘ fee contract out of purported taxpayer damages (whether or not […]
Maine Chooses Transparency…Sort of
Following up on this post, CLW can report that the Maine Office of the Attorney General has decided to release its retainer agreement entered with three outside law firms to file the state’s entry in the climate litigation sweepstakes. In a change of position, the OAG says it does have records—two now, rather than zero—that […]