Judge Rips San Juan’s Climate Lawsuit As ‘Astonishing Plagiarism’ Of Prior Cases
Court calls out carbon-copy lawsuit, putting Puerto Rico's climate case on thin ice.
by Kyle Kohli Apr 17, 2025
In a scathing rebuke of the coordinated climate litigation campaign’s copy-and-paste filing tactics, a federal judge in Puerto Rico has called the integrity of the lawyers involved into question. [emphasis, links added]
A recent order from U.S. District Judge Aida M. Delgado-Colón lambasted the outside counsel representing San Juan, Puerto Rico, in its climate lawsuit against oil companies filed in 2023.
The rebuke, which was accompanied by a proposed $7,000 fine, was twofold: 1) for missing court-imposed deadlines, and 2) more grievously, for plagiarizing a complaint filed by forty Puerto Rican municipalities in 2022.
Let’s dive in.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/judge-rips-san-juans-climate-lawsuit-as-astonishing-plagiarism-of-prior-cases/
