Sentences with phrase «use racketeering laws»

and how this old situation has a direct tie to enviro - activists» current efforts to use racketeering laws to persecute people who criticize the notion of catastrophic man - caused global warming.

Meaning, current efforts to use racketeering laws as a means to prosecute «climate change deniers.»

Perhaps Gelbspan has no direct current involvement in global warming political efforts, but regarding the question of where he is these days, the answer seems to indicate that his collective past efforts are worthy of deep professional level investigation in relation to all the current focus on using racketeering laws to persecute skeptic climate scientists and the organizations having any association with them.

Not exact matches

And when racketeering laws didn't seem to fit, he found a creative way to use the antitrust statute.

In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch last year, 20 climate scientists urged her to use federal racketeering laws to prosecute corporations and think tanks that have «deceived the American people about the risks of climate change.»

The same techniques are also accepted as standard currency of the adversary process itself, in which the law takes such pride, which makes it particularly absurd to propose defining it as unlawful racketeering to «use dubious information to advance a cause.»

Last March, through numerous state open records requests, E&E Legal uncovered emails showing that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman formed a secret coalition of several other states» attorneys general (AGs) and prominent green activists to use the criminal justice system to target organizations that question the climate change agenda under fraud and racketeering laws.

At 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, the commenters seem to think that, while it might not amount to racketeering, a litigant has a legitimate complaint when forced to use a particular private vendor for such services, at extra cost.