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15 Cases found

Wigington v. MacMartin

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Cal.
Status: Motion to dismiss and anti-SLAPP motion to strike granted. [ 08/31/2022 ]
Description: Defamation brought against climate scientist and other defendants in connection with statements made by the scientist in a fact-checking review of the plaintiff's YouTube video about climate engineering.
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Young v. EPA

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Motion for entry of partial final judgment entered and case stayed pending resolution of appeal. [ 11/02/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the Biden administration's reconstitution of the Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee.
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Masters v. Obama

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: C.D. Cal.
Status: Motion to dismiss granted. [ 12/15/2017 ]
Description: Pro se action against President Obama and other defendants alleging that they knowingly lied about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions and damaged the plaintiff's career.
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Jacobson v. National Academy of Sciences

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Super. Ct.
Status: Plaintiff's motion for reconsideration denied. [ 06/25/2020 ]
Description: Action brought by scientist against journal and another scientist in connection with publication of article critiquing plaintiff-scientist's work.
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Goldstein v. Climate Action Network

Filing Date: 2016
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Tex.
Status: Motions to dismiss granted. [ 06/12/2017 ]
Description: Lawsuit asserting Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims against environmental organizations alleging that false claims regarding anthropogenic carbon emissions' connection to climate change amounted to a criminal scheme.
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Horner v. Rector & Visitors of George Mason University

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: Va. Cir. Ct.
Status: Order issued. [ 04/22/2016 ]
Description: Action to compel production of professor's records that plaintiff alleged would show professor helped organize a campaign against fossil fuel companies.
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Judicial Watch, Inc. v. United States Department of Commerce

Filing Date: 2015
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Defendant's motion for summary judgment granted. [ 08/21/2017 ]
Description: Action to compel production of NOAA documents concerning climate data and related records in connection with congressional subpoena.
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Competitive Enterprise Institute v. Office of Science and Technology Policy

Filing Date: 2014
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Court issued memorandum opinion modifying February 2016 memorandum opinion, and order on court's March 23, 2016 order to show cause. [ 05/09/2016 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking documents related to video that connected 2014 polar vortex to climate change
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Wegman v. Mashey

Filing Date: 2014
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Va.
Status: Notice of voluntary dismissal filed. [ 04/30/2015 ]
Description: Action against climate science writer seeking damages for tortious interference with contract and conspiracy.
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Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. Arizona Board of Regents

Filing Date: 2013
Court/Admin Entity: Ariz.
Status: Board of Regents' motions for stay of disclosure denied. [ 08/29/2018 ]
Description: Seeking disclosure of university records, including professors' emails, related to the climate change “hockey stick” and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Mann v. Competitive Enterprise Institute

Filing Date: 2012
Court/Admin Entity: D.C. Super. Ct.
Status: Defendants' motion for summary judgment granted in part, as it relates to claims against Competitive Enterprise Institute, and denied, in part, as it relates to claims against Rand Simberg, and plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment against the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Rand Simberg on the issue of falsity, and motion to strike their affirmative defense that their statements were not “substantively false” denied. [ 07/22/2021 ]
Description: Defamation action brought by climate scientist against authors and publishers of articles about scientist's work.
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American Tradition Institute v. Rector & Visitors of University of Virginia

Filing Date: 2011
Court/Admin Entity: Va.
Status: Opinion issued affirming trial court. [ 04/17/2014 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking former University of Virginia professor's emails concerning climate change work.
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American Tradition Institute v. NASA

Filing Date: 2011
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Stipulation filed resolving attorney's fees issue. [ 02/18/2012 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking records of James Hansen pertaining to his outside employment and revenue generation.
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Cuccinelli v. Rector & Visitors of University of Virginia

Filing Date: 2010
Court/Admin Entity: Va.
Status: Opinion issued setting aside civil investigative demands with prejudice. [ 03/02/2012 ]
Description: Action seeking to quash investigative demands of Virginia attorney general concerning “Climategate.”
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Competitive Enterprise Institute v. NASA

Filing Date: 2010
Court/Admin Entity: D.D.C.
Status: Memorandum opinion issued granting in part and denying in part NASA's motion for summary judgment. [ 10/29/2013 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking documents related to errors in global temperature data sets.
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