Government Accountability & Oversight
No outside counsel needed, already being provided…in-house Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has launched what documents — both public and some not yet released — show he has been working on with outside parties for quite some time, the next entry in the climate litigation sweepstakes. CLW readers recall how then-AG Sidney Blumenthal confessed that […]
The long and sordid history of the New York OAG’s disastrous prosecution of ExxonMobil for alleged climate crimes, gamely replicated by Massachusetts AG Maura Healey in Massachusetts as the New York case disintegrated in court, is well-chronicled here at CLW. As is the more recent push to obtain records sealed during that first action. At […]
In case you missed it, the State of Rhode Island’s private attorneys at Sher Edling LLP responded last week to Energy Policy Advocates’ Amicus brief in the First Circuit Court of Appeals. As CLW and other outlets have pointed out, public records obtained by the transparency group Energy Policy Advocates strongly suggest that the State of Rhode Island […]
New Emails obtained in AG open records litigation affirm: plaintiff’s lawyer who recruited NY OAG to investigate his litigation target was not “whistleblower”, docs aren’t privileged NEW YORK, NY – On Friday, an attorney for the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed a motion to intervene in the New York Attorney […]
Newly Obtained Email Shows NAAG Role in Activist Recruitment for #ExxonKnew Investigations NAAG served as conduit for plaintiffs bar to select “sympathetic AGs” CLW admits it has not before seen the below document. An informal survey of parties who presumably would have seen it — had it been sent to all “Energy and Environment Bureau […]