Posted on 02/02/2024 2:19:02 PM PST by Libloather
EXCLUSIVE: Left-wing advocacy nonprofits, aided by trial law firms and Democrats, are increasingly turning to the legal system to push Green New Deal policies, according to a new consumer report shared with Fox News Digital.
The report, published Thursday by the Alliance for Consumers, details how advocacy groups have looked to wage public nuisance lawsuits to remove products and services, such as fossil fuels and firearms, from the market that "do not align with the progressive agenda." Public nuisance laws prohibit activities that harm people or property nearby and are generally enforced by government entities.
"Public nuisance cases aren't about putting money in the hands of victims," Alliance for Consumers Executive Director O.H. Skinner told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Public nuisance cases are about creating a big pot of money to ‘abate the nuisance.’ And that money doesn't go to victims or consumers or any of the traditional people who you would think would be the good guys in a lawsuit against a giant company."
"There's been far too little attention to that. So, we've really been spending a lot of time highlighting that these are really ideological weapons, because public nuisance is a unique tool to generate billions of dollars for pet causes and bankrupt, or risk bankrupting, somebody you don't like," Skinner continued. "If you want to end firearm manufacturing in America, if you want to cripple fossil fuels or energy companies, this is a very unique tool."
According to the report, public nuisance cases are generally pursued using a similar "playbook" where left-wing interest groups identify an issue impacting people, identify corporations within that industry, then file a claim for "indirect harm." They then leverage political and public pressure to force a settlement in the case, the Alliance for Consumers concluded.
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Ending freedom is what the commies are all about.
Commies using Lawfare everywhere you turn.
These nuisance lawsuits will only serve to throw additional products and services onto black markets.
And some keep asking where all the trillion$$ went...
There you go (a good chunk of it).
Identify them all and file counter lawsuits for tortious interference with interstate commerce, since most products are made out of state and shipped in.
They have had considerable success weaponizing the justice system.
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