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 […]
Amicus Brief Details Climate Litigation Campaign’s Political Origins
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, […]
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 […]