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 […]
Municipal climate lawsuits
Movement in Mass. AG Open Records Case
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 […]
All the Climate Contracts We Cannot See
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 […]
Honolulu-lulu II
Following up on this post, it seems the Hawai’i Supreme Court has completely reversed course — and CLW means completely — when it comes to releasing records about its justices’ participation in the climate litigation industry’s seminars to parade plaintiffs’ witnesses and amicus filers in front of as many judges as possible who might hear […]
Honolulu-lulu
Following up on this item, CLW has learned that the Hawai’i state Supreme Court has released a few records to Energy Policy Advocates pertaining to the remarkable series of ‘seminars’ — launched after two setbacks in court for the band of litigious warriors in 2018 — for judges to hear from plaintiffs’ counsel, plaintiffs’ witnesses, […]