Government Accountability & Oversight
CLW sees this story posted today, about the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office bringing the noted “contingency fee” law firm Sher Edling on board its climate lawsuit against Exxon Mobil. A few days earlier, in Energy Policy Advocates v. Healey, a Suffolk County Superior Court ordered the MA AG to answer interrogatories seeking details of the emails […]
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 […]
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 […]
The New Jersey Attorney General has filed its privilege log with the court, in Government Accountability & Oversight’s OPRA suit seeking OAJ’s contract with the law firm behind most governmental “climate” lawsuits, Sher Edling LLP. As the cover letter indicates, OAG has also filed its contracts under seal for the court to review. That is […]
Video of litigation pitch adds to evidence that lawsuits seek dough to pay for pols’ pet projects CLW readers will remember the admission — reflected in two independent sets of notes taken at a meeting at the Rockefeller family mansion at Pocantico — that governmental “climate” litigation is not actually about “combatting climate change” but is […]