Government Accountability & Oversight
Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States hear oral argument in BP p.l.c. v Mayor and City of Baltimore, the first climate nuisance case to make it to the Court since the 2011 unanimous drubbing the plaintiffs took in AEP v. Connecticut (an 8-0 decision, with the majority opinion — written by then-Justice Ruth […]
GAO Board Member Chris Horner has a piece in today’s Washington Times about the climate litigation industry and next week’s oral argument in the Mayor and City of Baltimore v. BP p.l.c. An Excerpt: Climate litigation industry comes to SCOTUS Supreme Court will decide whether government donors, ideologues and the trial bar should prevail Increasingly, societal institutions have […]
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” […]
Bloomberg-provided Attorneys Insist to Courts “Climate” Suits are Local, Not Effort at National Policymaking; Documents Show These Attorneys Were Provided to AGs to Work on “Matters of National Importance” Brief Reveals for First Time an AGs, Tort Bar Pact to Coordinate on “Local” Climate Nuisance Lawsuits WASHINGTON, D.C., November 23, 2020 – The transparency group […]
Yesterday, as a similar action out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit — BP P.L.C. et al. v Mayor & City Council of Baltimore — awaits argument in the United States Supreme Court, a two-judge First Circuit panel issued an opinion upholding a federal district court’s remand of Rhode Island’s case […]