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'A Big Scare Tactic': ExxonMobil Files 'Conspiracy' Counter Suits Against Climat

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« on: February 13, 2018, 04:10:46 pm »

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/02/13/big-scare-tactic-exxonmobil-files-conspiracy-counter-suits-against-climate-defenders

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In response to a series of lawsuits aimed at holding the oil giant to account for its climate crimes, ExxonMobil is taking "a bare-knuckle approach rarely seen in legal disputes" by threatening and filing counter suits against those who have sued them.

"Rather than bully communities trying to protect themselves, ExxonMobil should direct its vast resources to help fix the problem—and accept responsibility for the damages their products have caused."
—Peter Frumhoff, Union of Concerned Scientists
ExxonMobil "has targeted at least 30 people and organizations, including the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts, hitting them with suits, threats of suits, or demands for sworn depositions," based upon claims that "the lawyers, public officials, and environmental activists are 'conspiring' against it in a coordinated legal and public relations campaign," Bloomberg reports.

After a 2015 investigative report by InsideClimate News found that ExxonMobil had "conducted cutting-edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed," attorneys general Eric Schneiderman of New York and Maura Healey of Massachusetts opened investigations into whether the company defrauded investors.

Let's begin a boycott Exxon-Mobile campaign on social media. I think most Americans have had it with corporate bullies from the 24/7 we have seen it with our current prez.
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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2018, 08:25:52 pm »

A RICO prosecution?  That would be a first, wouldn't it?

Whatever happened to the loyalty exemplified in the musical Lil Abner:

He makes the rules
And he intends to keep it thataway
What's good for General Bullmoose
Is good for the U.S.A.!
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« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2018, 09:33:24 am »

EXXON is  threatening and filing counter suits against those who have sued them. Shazaam who ever heard of this. My goodness.
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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2018, 11:23:19 am »

Since the 1980s.

"A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.[1] Such lawsuits have been made illegal in many jurisdictions on the grounds that they impede freedom of speech.

"The typical SLAPP plaintiff does not normally expect to win the lawsuit. The plaintiff's goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs, or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. In some cases, repeated frivolous litigation against a defendant may raise the cost of directors and officers liability insurance for that party, interfering with an organization's ability to operate.[2] A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate. A SLAPP is often preceded by a legal threat.

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"The acronym was coined in the 1980s by University of Denver professors Penelope Canan and George W. Pring.[5] The term was originally defined as "a lawsuit involving communications made to influence a governmental action or outcome, which resulted in a civil complaint or counterclaim filed against nongovernment individuals or organizations on a substantive issue of some public interest or social significance." The concept's originators later dropped the notion that government contact had to be about a public issue to be protected by the Right to Petition the Government, as provided in the First Amendment. It has since been defined less broadly by some states, and more broadly in one state (California) where it includes suits about speech on any public issue.[6]"

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation

(My emphasis - more @ the URL)

So, these have been around for 35 years or so.  A whole generation, @ least.
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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2018, 12:11:48 pm »

Suing and counter-suing those who get in the way, that's the Trump way. Squadrons of lawyers, or in Exx-Mob's case, armies of lawyers give a big advantage to the uptrodden. Or is that the treaders-on? At some point, the opponent realizes he doesn't have enough money to fight long, drawn out lawsuits. That's how the thieving, lying greed-bags win.
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« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2018, 06:16:17 pm »

This could be interesting -- in order for Exxon-Mobil to successfully sue for damages, they'll have to prove that the defendants maliciously damaged them.  In other words, they'll have to prove the climate scientists were wrong, in filing the prior suits and actions.  By including the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts, they're taking on at least two entities that won't be intimidated by the cost of defending themselves.
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