Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel production of unredacted copies of agreements between the New Jersey Attorney General and an outside law firm representing the Attorney General in a climate change case against fossil fuel industry defendants.
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Government Accountability & Oversight v. Division of Law & Public Safety, Office of the Attorney General
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 07/21/2023 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Lawsuit Sought Disclosure of Terms of New Jersey Attorney General’s Agreement with Outside Counsel in Climate Lawsuit. An organization that submitted a New Jersey Open Public Records Act request to the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit seeking to compel production of unredacted copies of an agreement between the Attorney General and an outside law firm related to the law firm’s representation of the Attorney General in New Jersey’s climate change lawsuit against fossil fuel industry defendants. The organization asserted that the redactions were not appropriate and that the public had a right to know the terms of the agreement because the “promise of payment [to the law firm] is made in the name of protecting the public fisc, as is the case in defendants’ ‘climate’ lawsuit.”