Government Accountability & Oversight
“She was in the vanguard of the new progressive state AGs who use prosecutorial power against opponents. Watch for this in the Harris Administration in 2025, if not sooner.” — Wall Street Journal Editorial, “Getting to Know Kamala Harris”, August 13, 2020 Back in March 2018, Judge Valerie Caproni of the U.S. District Court for […]
On the same day the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear an important, related case, with local counsel Tim Cornell of Cornell Dolan, P.C., the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed a motion with the Suffolk County Superior Court seeking summary judgment against Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s Office (OAG), for […]
The City of Hoboken, New Jersey, is the latest entrant in the “climate nuisance” litigation campaign chronicled here at CLW. The complaint can be found here. Signs were piling up that some New Jersey plaintiff or plaintiffs were preparing to enter the fray, with advocates for the climate litigation industry making the rounds and a […]
The 5-4, 2007 SCOTUS opinion in Massachusetts v. EPA enabled EPA to impose the anti-“carbon” agenda under the Clean Air Act. That opinion, and all of the economic and social costs that flowed from it, originated with a petition to EPA by green activists. That petition was then seized upon by activist state attorneys general to […]
Yesterday a panel of 9th Circuit judges allowed City of Oakland et al. v BP PLC et al. to continue in state courts, as opposed to having this effort to effectively create federal policy to be heard by the federal courts. As CLW has previously noted in reply to a similar move in Colorado, the […]