Someone in the IRS has been asleep at the wheel on this matter. So I guess they could fairly claim to have somehow engendered that sort of personal smarts in addition to equipping me for medical school with all the biochemistry.Īnd indeed at the time 2 years of Reserve Officer Training Corps service was also a requirement (horrors) and as I would thus be marching on the athletic fields anyway, I decided to join the Air Force rifle drill team that competed with several other schools in some pretty remarkably intricate performances with 1903 Springfield 30-06 rifles of WWI vintage upon being flown to Arizona on a twin-engined C47 transport (DC3 commercially) with a tail wheel assuring a floor slanting down to the rear and paratrooper style side seating you will have seen in the ‘Band of Brothers’ portrayal of the Normandy invasion. And come to think of it, I elected to spend my graduation ceremony day taking my family sightseeing on lovely nearby Catalina Island instead of foolishly sitting in the hot summer sun in black robe and cap listening to a couple hours of poppycock.
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One can imagine how proud I am lately to be a UCLA Bruin graduate, albeit over half a century ago when it hadn’t occurred to anyone that there should be a ‘safe space’ there free of any troubling contradictions. These revelations might well have implications for one or more of the “climate” lawsuits the Hollywood money is actually paying for.Īs GAO and the public further assess the meaning of this and related information, GAO expects further developments on this issue. That suggests one reason why the University fought and spent as it did. So, GAO is pleased to announce that, although it took two years of litigation for the public to learn about this, despite UCLA’s apparent willingness to do and spend anything to keep this under wraps, the public now better understands the climate litigation industry and even its genesis: Hollywood bigwigs taking tax deductions to launch a legal tsunami. This pre-paid financing model of suits - which are nonetheless being prosecuted under extraordinarily generous “contingency fee” agreements offering amounts typically associated with firms taking the risk of not being paid for the work - seemingly represents a revolution in the legal industry. The millions of dollars were run through a public charity as “charitable donations” to the firm.
In April, the court ordered UCLA to release most of what GAO sought, following which GAO broke the story laid out in those records that Leonardo DiCaprio and at least one green Republican donor (and quite possibly another, influential Republican donor, Andrew Sabin) have - from the beginning - privately financed the wave of “climate nuisance” litigation brought on behalf of governmental entities by the law firm Sher Edling, LLP. As such, GAO is still struggling to discern the school’s actual view of the importance of the matter.Ī hint as to the suit’s importance can be found in the substance of what GAO learned on the public’s behalf. This lawsuit to obtain public access to public records spanned just over two years, in which the University waged a scorched-earth effort of obstruction, enlisting a team of lawyers including a major law firm’s former chair of global litigation and of its appellate practice group, for what the school then insisted to the court was really a nothingburger of a case.īased on the hundreds of hours GAO’s two lawyers were forced to spend on the matter, it seems likely that UCLA paid its own outside firm five or more times that amount. Hunter’s time spent litigating the California Public Records Act litigation, Government Accountability & Oversight v. Late last month, the Superior Court for Los Angeles County awarded Government Accountability & Oversight $225,000 for local counsel James K.T. From Government Accountability & Oversight Court Awards GAO $225,000 in Legal Fees Over Records FightĮmails revealed Hollywood and other wealthy donors quietly financing law firm, with charitable foundation serving as pass-through for millions in “charitable grants”įinancing raises disclosure, possible ethics and tax questions
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