This week, CLW will excerpt New York Supreme Court Judge Barry Judge Ostrager’s deliberate, measured, yet thoroughly devastating 55-page opinion from last week’s NY AG face-plant, several aspects of which warrant widespread understanding. The opinion represents the first in what, sadly, is sure to be a succession of judicial rebuffs of a (so far) four-year […]
AG’s Climate Litigation Setback Triggers Revisionism
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 […]
WSJ Editorial Board Nails NY AG’s Climate “Fraud” Debacle
The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board has a few notes, “In case readers missed it—and no doubt New York Attorney General Letitia James hopes you did”, opening with an appropriate “Well, that was embarrassing”. Excerpts: The NY AG learned his pursuit — inarguably launched by donors, ideologues and the trial bar as CLW has documented […]