Exxon Sues the Suers in Fierce Climate-Change Case
I know some attorneys at a firm suing Exxon on climate change issues. Exxon's attempt to fight back will not be successful https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-13/exxon-sues-the-suers-in-fierce-bid-to-defeat-climate-lawsuits
As climate-change lawsuits against the oil industry mount, Exxon Mobil Corp. is taking a bare-knuckle approach rarely seen in legal disputes: Its going after the lawyers who are suing it.
The company has targeted at least 30 people and organizations, including the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts, hitting them with suits, threats of suits or demands for sworn depositions. The company claims the lawyers, public officials and environmental activists are conspiring against it in a coordinated legal and public relations campaign.
Exxon has even given that campaign a vaguely sinister-sounding name: The La Jolla playbook. According to the company, about two dozen people hatched a strategy against it at a meeting six years ago in an oceanfront cottage in La Jolla, Calif.
"Its an aggressive move, said Howard Erichson, an expert in complex litigation and a professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York. Does Exxon really need these depositions or is Exxon seeking the depositions to harass mayors and city attorneys into dropping their lawsuits?