On Monday afternoon, May 6, 2019, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh filed an Answer in response to an open records lawsuit by Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C., a suit that seeks Frosh’s application to Michael Bloomberg’s “Center for State Impacts” for a privately hired prosecutor to “advanc[e] progressive clean energy, climate change, and environmental legal […]
VA OAG FOIA Litigation re Bloomberg Scheme Heads to Discovery
There has been a development in Horner et al. v Herring. That is the lawsuit filed under Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act seeking whatever analysis, opinion or any other record led to the Virginia Office of Attorney General offering the stunning conclusion that it possesses the legal authority to bring in a Michael Bloomberg-funded prosecutor, […]
UCLA LITIGATION DOCS AFFIRM ORIGIN OF UCS, HARVARD SCRAMBLE TO PRE-BUT REVELATION OF “SECRET MEETING” FOR AGs, “PROSPECTIVE FUNDERS”
By Chris Horner On April 25, 2016, Harvard Law School and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) held a meeting with activists, public officials, and lawyers to, in part, “share legal and scientific information having an important bearing on potential investigations and lawsuits” against the energy industry. One participant described the briefing, in two separate […]