Virginia Supreme Court Rules Against Attorney General's Climate Science Case

[jpak]

Source: Yahoo News

A two-year effort by Virginia's attorney general to secure climate science documents from the University of Virginia has failed.

An opinion by Justice Leroy F. Millete Jr. indicated the Supreme Court found the university couldn't be considered a "person" under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act and therefore failed the threshold issue in the case.

Here are some more facts regarding the case.

* Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a global warming skeptic, pursued the case, which cost more than $500,000 in legal fees.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/virginia-supreme-court-rules-against-attorney-generals-climate-130300015.html

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More moran waste of taxpayer $$$

yup

[perdita9]

1. Republican wastes $500,000 of tax payer money

Excuse me, but how is this news? As far as I'm concerned, all the GOP does is waste tax payer money. Democrats at least build bridges and stuff.

[Galraedia]

2. It's news because...

The Supreme Court ruled that the state anti-fraud act doesn't allow the attorney general to issue CIDs against state agencies. Ken Cuckoonelli should have already known that. Makes me wonder where the hell he got his law degree from.

[anti-alec]

5. Bob Jones U.

School of Homeopathic Law School.

"You make up shit as you go".

[Jim__]

3. If he would have secured the documents, what then?

Was he going to have someone read them to him?

[sce56]

4. +1

[Posteritatis]

6. He probably would have cherrypicked and ellided them out of context to find something "bad." (nt)

[cstanleytech]

7. What then? Why he gets the state to

pay for someone to dictate the documents so he can listen to them at his leisure and then he selects key portions, distorts it and then claims it proves that there is a vast left wing conspiracy.

[oldhippydude]

12. not sure if that would have helped

they had words of more than one sylable in them

[xxqqqzme]

8. Who was on the receiving end of that

$500,000? A state's attorney general doesn't have staff to do research, conduct discovery?

[underpants]

9. Because the AG normally represents UVa they had to hire a law firm (with private funds)

Because the university is represented by the attorney general's office, U.Va. had to hire outside legal counsel to argue its case in Cuccinelli v. Rector and Visitors of University of Virginia.

So far the university has paid the legal firm Hogan Lovells $570,697.97, all of which came from private funds, said U.Va spokeswoman Carol Wood.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virginia-politics/2012/mar/03/tdmain01-va-supreme-court-backs-uva-ar-1736578/

[DallasNE]

10. Said Another Way

Virginia does not allow witch hunts. The lower court basically ruled that the AG failed to show cause and the upper court said he lacked standing. Those are two pretty hard smackdowns.

[randome]

11. Well, the Virginia legislators still think of women as witches, I would think.

But at least the state supreme court has a cooler head on its collective shoulders.