Michael Mann’s lawsuit victory over a million dollars in damages. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00396-y
Posts Tagged ‘lawsuit’:
2023-09-19 Calif Sues Big Oil For Denying Climate Change
I live here in Southern California, and I hope and pray that California is successful. But I don’t think it will be called a victory. Looking at reality, Big Oil has, since finding out from their own scientists in the late ’70s, based their business on a deadly, unsustainable business model. And they’ve ignored the
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2023-09-04 BTC & Elias Talk Lawsuit Against Republican Illegal Redistricting
BTC talks with attorney Mark Elias about the the lawsuit in Florida winning against the unconstitutional Republican gerrymandering that demolished a black majority district, and lawsuits in other states against Republican gerrymandering. Mr. Elias is a real hero for taking on the unconstitutional power grabbing the Republicans have been doing in order to deny minority
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2022-03-29 Shell “Breached Legal Duties” By Mismanaging Climate Plan
ClientEarth, a European climate law charity, has filed lawsuit alleging that Shell breached its legal duties by mismanaging climate risk. This is a novel approach and if successful could mean big changes for Big Oil and the fossil fuel industry. https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/03/27/shell-breached-legal-duties-by-mismanaging-climate-risk-lawsuit-alleges/
2022-03-15 Hawaii Big Oil Court Case Passes Major Milestone
This important article by a ‘guest contributor’ gives some very good links to information. The court has allowed Hawaii to go ahead to the discovery, where oil companies will have to reveal internal documents regarding fossil fuels causing climate change. Quote: << A growing movement Climate litigation such as the Hawaii case is designed to
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2022-02-20 Solar City Shareholders Lawsuit – Musk Should Pay $13B
This is the first I’ve heard about this lawsuit. Must be newsmedia ignoring it. https://www.reuters.com/business/telsa-investors-urge-judge-order-musk-repay-13-bln-solarcity-deal-2022-01-18/
2021-10-24 The Role Of Antitrust Law In Energy Democracy
This 1 hour podcast discusses lawsuits, antitrust against SRP – Salt River Project, among others. This was originally by Solar Cities which was bought by Tesla. Tesla and SRP settled out of court, so sadly the court never got to make a legal decision. This has to do with an electric utility making it difficult
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2021-09-24 NSA Lawsuit Dismissed: State Secrets
Wikipedia and the ACLU sued after snowden revealed how the NSA spies on telephone conversations. They may appeal. https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/ap_news/business/court-rejects-lawsuit-against-nsa-on-state-secrets-grounds/article_89aeb38c-bfde-58a0-8799-59ffa248c68d.html
2021-07-11 Judge Blocks Fla. Law To Punish Social Media
The Florida Trumplicans passed a law that fines social media companies $250,000 a day for suspending accounts of politicians. This law violates the social media companies’ First Amendment rights to control what users agreed to when they signed up. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-florida-law-targeting-facebook-twitter-over-politician-bans/ What should be of great concern to everyone is that a law that is this
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2021-06-25 DoJ Taking New Ga. Election Law To Court
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-department-sue-georgia-voting-rights-law-sourcejustice-department-sue-georgia-voting-rights-law-source/story?id=78488089 ***** It’s difficult to understand how these Trumplicans can break federal laws then claim the federal government is taking away their state rights. The Voting Rights Act was put in place to prevent the kinds of abuses that states were doing in the 1960s. This VRA has has broad bipartisan support for many decades
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