MN OAG Used Bloomberg-provided Attorney in Coordinating with Outside-Activists to Tout Climate Suit - Climate Litigation Watch

MN OAG Used Bloomberg-provided Attorney in Coordinating with Outside-Activists to Tout Climate Suit

From records produced by the Minnesota Office of the Attorney General, Leigh Currie — an outside activist and one of two lawyers provided by a Michael Bloomberg group to file a lawsuit against energy companies — was also tasked with helping the Office’s “outreach” and media folks prep surrogates to promote the filing of that suit.

MN AG did not include either of the attorneys provided by Bloomberg’s group in lining up MSNBC to promote the suit — a task it left to the plaintiff’s law firm Sher Edling, LLP, with which OAG did not yet have a formalized relationship and which seemingly has been provided for the campaign by different outside donors. Ms. Currie later moved the court to admit those California attorneys to represent the AG on this case, which is nominally about Minnesota consumer protection law.