This is interesting. The Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General’s Opposition to Government Accountability & Oversight’s Discovery motion in an open records lawsuit is (belatedly, but that’s another story) due today. For its own reasons—it seems reasonable to conclude these reasons pertain to some discovery the AGO wanted to avoid about this document, and/or concluded […]
Massachusetts
Court Unseals Records Providing More Insight into Massachusetts AG ‘SAAGs’
Court unseals OAG Brief, Energy Policy Advocates brief, and Court’s Order in open records case over ‘Bloomberg SAAGs’ The Suffolk County (MA) Superior Court has unsealed records previously withheld in the public records lawsuit Energy Policy Advocates v. Office of the Attorney General, et al. That matter sought to learn more about how MA OAG […]
Massachusetts AG Releases ‘SAAGs’ Guidelines… Sort of
The Massachusetts Office of Attorney General’s “Guidelines for Special Assistant Attorneys General” (think, Bloomberg-provided ‘SAAGs’, and the climate-plaintiffs’ law firms brought on by MA OAG for climate lawfare)—rather, the portion the public are allowed to see of an agreement not signed by anyone—is available here. You can glean the vibe from these excerpts. No indication […]
Contingency-ish
Information in the public domain has in recent years revealed that fiduciaries of the public fisc have been granting a law firm extremely lucrative “contingency fee” (or contingency-ish) contracts to file “climate” lawsuits on behalf of governmental subdivisions—even though the firm is shown in FOIA’d emails and IRS filings to be the recipient of what is now […]