Administrative/Regulatory
Oct. 5, 2016
NY AG's pursuit of Exxon may have violated ABA rules
In his pursuit of Exxon, Eric Schneiderman must have had to ignore ABA Rule 3.8, designed to prevent prosecutorial abuse. By John Yoo and Horace Cooper
John Yoo
Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
John is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Nearly a year after mounting his #ExxonKnew campaign, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his "posse of state AGs" - as one columnist rightly called them - have spent the summer in full retreat.
Schneiderman and his climate-change crusaders had alleged that ExxonMobil had conspired with think-tanks and other industry advocates to hide the risks of global warming - since the 1970s. That's right, ...
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