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"You don?t mess with US lawyers"

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

In a post titled Climategate: the lawyers move in ? those scientists are toast!, James Delingpole writes of ClimateGate issues:

God bless America and ? can I really be saying this? ? God bless the legal profession! Despite the best efforts of the Obama administration, most of the world?s other governments (save the plucky Canucks), the United Nations and the Mainstream Media (MSM) to sweep Climategate under the carpet, the lawyers are putting this shoddy scandal where it belongs: in the dock. (Hat tip: Platosays)

The US Department of Energy (DOE) ? under pressure, most likely, from Senator Inhofe ? has issued a ?Litigation Hold Notice? to its various sub-departments asking them to retain any documents pertaining to the Climatic Research Unit at University of East Anglia. Below ? reports Watts Up With That - is a copy of the notice sent to the DOE?s Savannah office in South Carolina:

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What does it mean? Big, BIG trouble for the Climategate scientists is what it means. You don?t mess with US lawyers and the reason that what might seem an essentially British affair comes under their jurisdiction is because the DOE has provided funding for these scientists.

See also

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/12/climategate-pr-disaster-or-beginning-of.html

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/12/climategate-physicists-request-change.html

Full post as published by IPBiz on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).