Government Accountability & Oversight
On the same day the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear an important, related case, with local counsel Tim Cornell of Cornell Dolan, P.C., the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed a motion with the Suffolk County Superior Court seeking summary judgment against Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s Office (OAG), for […]
Secretary of State Named as Co-Defendant; Complaint Reveals Ex Parte Communications Today, with local counsel Tim Cornell of Cornell Dolan, P.C., the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed suit against Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey under that state’s public records law on behalf of the nonprofit group Energy Policy Advocates (EPA). The […]
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 […]
Last month, journalist Rob Schilling filed a Notice of Supplemental Authority with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in Schilling v. Speaker Pelosi, et al., a common law right of access lawsuit seeking records pertaining to the House Oversight Committee’s apparently unlawful (and non-ethical, per House rules) use of donor-provided outside consultants […]
From Energy In Depth: Last week, two state attorneys general spearheading the climate litigation campaign against energy companies, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, were sued by government watchdogs for refusing to turn over records regarding their coordination with outside organizations. … Since the comprehensive failure of the New York attorney general’s […]