by Anne Galloway and Colin Meyn VT Digger Private attorney and GOP activist Brady Toensing is leaving Vermont to take a senior counsel position with the U.S. Department of Justice. He starts work for the Office of Legal Policy Monday. Toensing, 51, announced his resignation as vice chair of the Vermont Republican Party on May [...]
Editorial Board Caledonian Record ...[E&E Legal] Attorney Brady Toensing said he still remains stymied in efforts to get {former Attorney General William} Sorrell to produce all of the emails and texts from his private accounts that Toensing says were required by the high court.” Sorrell - an enemy of your right to know - says [...]
by Mark Johnson VT Digger [E&E Legal] Attorney Brady Toensing says the only fishing expedition he’s interested in pursuing occurred in 2016 when former Attorney General William Sorrell’s cellphone — and all the text messages Toensing wanted reviewed — was ruined by water while casting in Connecticut. Three years after making his initial request — [...]
By James M. Taylor and H. Sterling Burnett Heartland Institute The Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal)...trounced government hacks in the grips of climate alarmist mania in two court battles recently. In the first case, Arizona’s appellate court issued a terse, seven-word decision, “Motion for Stay Pending Appeal is DENIED,” in a case in [...]
by the Caledonia Record Editorial Board This week Judge Mary Miles Teachout ruled the Vermont Attorney General must pay close to $66,000 in legal fees to settle its tab in a number of [E&E Legal] cases in which the AG’s office broke our freedom of information laws... Heinous Violation 1 In August of 2017, Judge [...]
by Dave Gram VT Digger The Vermont attorney general’s office may appeal this week’s order by a judge who said the state must pay about $66,000 to cover legal expenses of groups that sought and were first denied access to documents under Vermont’s public records law... In her order, [Judge Mary] Teachout concluded that “EELI [...]
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) A Vermont judge has ruled that the Vermont attorney general's office must pay nearly $66,000 in legal fees after it violated the state's public records law. The ruling Monday in Washington County Superior Court involves the AG's response to record requests made by the Washington-based Energy and Environment Legal Institute. It was [...]
by Michael Bielawski True North Reports Lawyers for a Washington-based nonprofit legal institute are calling their lawsuit against the Vermont Attorney General’s office a win, despite their inability to uncover long-sought-after public records. In 2016, the Energy and Environment Legal Institute filed two public records lawsuits against former Attorney General William Sorrell after he refused to release information about [...]
Montpelier, VT - On Monday, after months of legal wrangling, obfuscation by custodians of public records, and one deposition no-show, former Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell appeared in order to testify regarding his role as co-ringleader in the 'Climate-RICO' AG scandal. By court order, his deposition was to focus specifically on his use of a private Gmail [...]
by Erin Mundahl Inside Sources This week, Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), the non-profit group engaged in litigation and public education on energy and environmental issues continued its slow pursuit of records relating to former Vermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell’s involvement in the ExxonKnew campaign. For more than a year, E&E Legal has [...]
