by Jacob Gershman Wall Street Journal Law Blog Virginia’s highest court has denied a conservative group’s effort to force the University of Virginia to turn over emails from a controversial climate scientist who worked at the school. The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday held that the public university wasn’t obligated under the state’s freedom of information law to release [...]
by Frank Green Richmond Times-Dispatch The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the emails of a former University of Virginia climate scientist are exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The justices also upheld a circuit court decision requiring the American Tradition Institute to pay for the university’s costs in searching [...]
From staff and wire reports The Daily Progress RICHMOND — The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative group’s attempt to obtain former University of Virginia climate researcher Michael Mann’s emails. The ruling ended a three-year court battle that gained national headlines when then-state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli joined the American Tradition Institute in [...]
by Nick DeSantis Chronicle of Higher Education The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative group’s attempt to obtain the records of a climate scientist and former professor at the University of Virginia, the Associated Press reported. The case focused on whether the state’s open-records law exempted a range of documents deemed by the university to [...]
by Larry O'Dell Associated Press RICHMOND, Virginia — The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative group's attempt to obtain a University of Virginia climate researcher's emails... David W. Schnare, the institute's lawyer, said the court mischaracterized the organization's position. He said the institute agreed that the university could protect records whose release would [...]
by Sean McLernon Law360 Law360, New York (April 17, 2014, 5:53 PM ET) -- The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday blocked an environmental policy think tank from gaining access to email records from a former University of Virginia climate scientist, ruling that the academic's personal correspondence relating to his research isn't a matter of public [...]
For Immediate Release: April 17, 2014 Contact: Craig Richardson Richardson@eelegal.org 202-758-8301 Lead Attorney in ATI v. UVA Comments on Today's Virginia Supreme Court Decision Washington, D.C. - In a decision handed down today by the Virginia Supreme Court (American Tradition Institute v. Rector and Visitors, Case No. 130934), the Court affirmed the lower court’s decision [...]
by Anthony Watts Watts Up With That At the blog “Open Virginia Law” they are discussing the Mann case and potential impacts, as a new session results will be published from the Supreme Court of Virginia, and it’s likely the Mann/UVa case is one of them. Insiders tell me that even if Mann/UVa loses, they’ll likely [...]
Andrew Wilkrow, Host The Blaze TV E&E Legal's General Counsel David Schnare appeared on The Blaze TV to discuss the immorality of EPA using human "guinnea pigs" to test the effects of PM2.5. The show description is as follows: The Environmental Protection Agency tested dangerous pollutants not on animals but people, including children. According to [...]
by Ron Arnold Washington Examiner A man — we’ll call him “Subject No. 1” — had a clear plastic pipe stuck into his mouth with his lips sealed around it, while the diesel exhaust from a parked truck outside the gas chamber was mixed with particulate matter and pumped straight into his lungs. The pumped [...]
