Newly obtained records withheld for seven years reveal NYAG attorneys abandoned misgivings about pre-packaged “subpoena suggestion” after months of activists’ climate-lawsuit lobbying “[M]aybe he can come to see that he’s wrong” met “Please do know that I want to find a way on this as much as you do”, and politics carried the day This week, […]
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More on the “Climate” Contract the Public Can’t See
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 […]
Court Orders In Camera Review of New Jersey AG’s Climate Contract
At a hearing yesterday discussing GAO’s OPRA suit, cited here, the court ordered in camera review of the contract portions of which the New Jersey AG’s Office thinks the public should not see. Transcript to follow, followed at some point by a ruling.
GAO Files Reply in New Jersey OPRA Case Over Secretive Climate Litigation Contract
Read GAO’s Reply in Support of its Motion to Show Cause in GAO v. OAG under New Jersey’s Open Records Act (OPRA). This action seeks an unredacted copy of New Jersey’s agreement with a litigation firm to file the Garden State’s entry in the cavalcade of climate lawsuits by progressive-led political offices chasing a “sustainable […]
Congressional Inquiry Into Climate Litigation Industry
CLW readers will recognize the themes set forth in this letter, sent today by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Ranking Senate Commerce Committee member Sen. Ted Cruz and reported first here. While addressed to a law firm engaged by numerous progressive elected officials—to which these politicians promised so many millions out of their […]