Foreign-Funded Plastic Lawfare
A foreign charity funded by an Australian billionaire has paid an American law firm to represent four tax-exempt environmental activist groups in a lawsuit against a ExxonMobil to a special…
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Superfund Shakedown: Part 2, A Problem of Attribution
A threshold issue for any Climate Superfund scheme involves attempting to determine the share of global emissions attributable to any given company. As lawsuits to sue energy companies for climate…
Superfund Shakedown: Part 1, On to Plan C
Climate change activists and their political allies are exasperated by humanity’s refusal to abandon its most important energy sources. Those activists have been unsuccessful at securing the federal legislation they…
Why Are ‘Charities’ Funneling Millions Into Climate Change Lawfare?
Over the last several years, dozens of dubious climate change lawsuits have been brought by state and local governments against the oil and gas industry. They are bringing these cases…
Who Are the Ballot Cleansers?
On The Vicki McKenna Show, CRC's Parker Thayer talks with guest host Matt Kittle about efforts to remove Donald Trump from the primary elections in several states. Citizens for Responsibility…
BEST OF 2023: The Lawsuit Lobby
What happens when the lawyers are themselves the special interest? The collective influence of the plaintiffs’ trial bar—what its critics have variously called the “Lawsuit Lobby,” the “Trial Lawyer Underground,”…
BEST OF 2023: The Lawsuit Lobby’s Taxpayer Drain
Most Americans have probably seen or heard advertisements from lawyers in recent months regarding contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Attorneys have reportedly been spending vast sums on…
The Activist Side Third-Party Litigation Support
Some tax-exempt groups—501(c)(3) public charities and giant private foundations—actively encourage, underwrite, and otherwise support strategic litigation aimed not at vindicating the rights of injured plaintiffs, but at achieving public policy…
Suing for Gun Control?
A recurring theme in political-issue activism is that when activists cannot achieve their desired policy ends through traditional democratic routes, many resort to other means they hope will ultimately have a…
The Little-Known Lawsuit Lobby
CRC’s Robert Stilson talks about the Lawsuit Lobby on Freedom and Prosperity Radio with Joe Thomas. Trial lawyers play a prominent role in political debates and lobbying, primarily through American…