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Bishop Hill Cuccinelli in court again
Jan 11, 2012 Climate: Mann FOI The latest installment in the long-running legal battle over whether or not Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli can see Michael Mann's emails takes place tomorrow, according to a report in DailyPress.com.
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So Chris Hulme is blamming fuel povety on us little old poor people not shopping around
Personally i blame it on spending 40 billion on wind turbines that blow up and solar panels that get blown off (sounds rude) of roofs when it get a bit windy
So does this idiot live in the real world
please let Mann get imprisoned....please...pretty please
Hulme? Huhne, surely - may have an umlaut?
Also: is it possible that solar panels are dislodged by induced low pressure when wind passes rapidly over an inclined roof? So that more correctly, they are sucked off? Discuss
Cobb
OT, but I mentioned solar panels to a builder friend who confirms that they are either clipped on to the tiles, which is insecure and liable to, shall we say, wind interaction, or they are screwed down through the roof, which is difficult to seal. Rainwater will still travel behind the panels and will cause long-term damage if able to penetrate. I see trouble ahead...
The court hearing took 45 minutes.
Amongst other arguments, Wesley G. Russell Jr., deputy attorney general for civil litigation for Virginia, argued that the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act, which Mr. Cuccinelli is using allows him to do so if there is “reason to believe” that a person may have documents relevant to a fraud investigation.
Fellow U.Va. attorney Jessica Ellsworth argued that civil investigative demands issued under the fraud act do not apply to the university because it is an agency of the commonwealth and not a person. The issue, she said, was not whether the attorney general had a right of inquiry, "But his right to compel a commonwealth agency to answer a CID."
A decision on the case is expected in early March.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/virginia-politics/2012/jan/13/tdmet02-va-supreme-court-takes-up-cuccinelli-uva-c-ar-
Interesting, if only that Cuccinelli is referred to as a sceptic instead of as the Attourny General. Clear sign where the papers loyalties lie.
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