Government Accountability & Oversight
Today, the government-transparency group Energy Policy Advocates filed a petition and proposed brief in support of certiorari in the State of Rhode Island’s “climate nuisance” case which, as the brief notes, subtly shifted its focus after filing — and after “nuisance” claims were dealt further defeats in federal courts — to emphasizing alleged consumer fraud. […]
As SCOTUS hearing in City of Baltimore nears, documents old and new raise serious doubts about plaintiffs’ claims The United States Supreme Court will hear Mayor and City of Baltimore v. BP p.l.c., next Tuesday, the first case in an epidemic of coordinated climate litigation to make it to the Court. While this “climate nuisance” […]
University now says it destroyed original plaintiffs’ lawyer email, too CLW readers recall UCLA Law School’s claim that, while it produced a January 19 – 22, 2018 email thread between Prof. Ann Carlson and “climate nuisance” plaintiffs’ law firm Sher Edling — a ‘pro bono’ client as part of her UCLA work — it could […]
CLW readers know about Government Accountability & Oversight’s (GAO) Public Records Act litigation against UCLA Law School, filed on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. This involves records of two faculty, including professor Ann Carlson, both a consultant to the climate litigation industry and a media go-to for ostensibly neutral (if reliably admiring) assessment of […]
As Climate Litigation Watch noted earlier this week, a Friday 4/19/19 document production from UCLA sheds further light on that public institution’s law school and its role in the Climate Litigation Industry. Among the documents released Public Records Act litigation are emails suggesting that Profs. Ann Carlson and Cara Horowitz sought legal counsel on avoiding […]
