Donor-, Tort Lawyer-Prompted NY AG Climate "Fraud" Suit Crashes, Burns - Climate Litigation Watch

Donor-, Tort Lawyer-Prompted NY AG Climate “Fraud” Suit Crashes, Burns

In its “fraud” pursuit of ExxonMobil as a proxy for the energy industry, and anyone who might dare to oppose the climate agenda again, the New York Attorney General failed to clear the lowest bar ever established for such matters, the Martin Act.

This is what happens when law enforcement launches abusive investigations and prosecution at the behest of donors and the plaintiffs’ tort bar. The nasty story of how all this came about is laid out in documentary form here.

This is not good news for Massachusetts’ AG Maura Healey who leapt in, filing her own suit as the NY AG’s meltdown became apparent, to — one would be forgiven for concluding — avoid filing in the wake of this disaster.

This is what happens when law enforcement launches abusive investigations and prosecution at the behest of donors and the plaintiffs’ tort bar. The nasty story of how all this came about is laid out in documentary form here.

It is CLW’s view that, as a matter of political, legal and overall judicial hygiene, there has to be some accountability at some point for the abuses that these matters and related litigation represent.