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 […]
Document Missing from NY AG Production of Tort Bar/Donor/AG Record Production
CLW previously informed readers that newly released records shed further light on the dangerous deployment of law enforcement to advance private ends, at the request of private parties. Reviewing the request, and a transcript from The People of the State of New York v. Exxon Mobil — which discussion prompted the request and proved these […]
Previously Sealed Emails to NY AG Private Account Give Glimpse of Donor-Activist-Litigation Axis
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 […]