Government Accountability & Oversight
Harvard Law School students can’t tolerate the idea of allowing a firm to recruit on campus, for the sin of having just crushed an out of control prosecutor in what is — when considering the larger enterprise of which it was a part (chronicled tirelessly here at CLW) — one of the more egregious abuses […]
Energy in Depth has an amusing summary here of how the Climate Trial of the Century was nothing to see, oh look squirrel… An excerpt: [A]as trial proceeded, and it became clear that the NYAG had zero evidence to back up its baseless claims that ExxonMobil had misled its investors, its activist allies abandoned the […]
These past two weeks CLW has documented how, just weeks her office took in a slide show presentation titled “What Exxon Knew” from a plaintiffs’ attorney touring OAGs looking for “a single sympathetic attorney general” to help out his flagging litigation campaign against the energy industry, Massachusetts’ AG Maura Healey announced an investigation into — […]
Naomi Oreskes is the Zelig of the climate litigation industry, appearing in every agenda or list of attendees at landmark “secret”, “delegitimize” and other infamous gatherings: As CLW wrote earlier: Trotting out activists Naomi Oreskes and Sharon Bordas is something of an effort to get the band back together from the “secret meeting at Harvard”, […]
CLW has noticed with concern the deployment of congressional committees by the trial bar the same way state attorneys general have agreed to be used, in pursuit of private parties to help out tort litigation campaigns by political allies. Government Accountability & Oversight Board Member Matt Hardin testified against the practice at a recent hearing […]