Notes from a meeting of the Bradley Foundation’s Implementation and Impact Committee about that year’s grants and what they plan to keep funding. Includes funding of Edward Blum’s group the Center for Equal Opportunity, which he later renamed to the Project for Fair Representation.
Litigation and Law
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University of Connecticut paper “An Introduction to Climate Change Liability Litigation and a View to the Future”
An article by Michael Gerrard and Joseph Macdougald on the advancement of climate change litigation. It explores two approaches to climate change litigation; the first is to use the federal regulatory apparatus and the second is to use the tort system. The article explores key questions in climate change litigation such as, who is responsible […]
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Kerr paper “A Justice’s Surprise That Has Stood Its Ground: The Enduring Value of the Commercial Speech Doctrine’s Powellian Balance
A paper by scholar Robert Kerr on corporate free speech and the role various entities, including fossil fuel companies, have played in establishing the legal basis for it. One of the most important concepts of modern commercial speech related to advertising, characterized as the “Powellian balance,” resulted in a compromise between those who thought commercial […]
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ExxonMobil Kasky Brief
In 2003, ExxonMobil and fellow corporate “amici” filed a brief in support of Nike in a free speech case before the Supreme Court called Nike v. Kasky. The case centered around media reports about Nike using sweatshop labor and Nike’s assertions that its labor practices were fair and equitable. A California man named Mark Kasky […]
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1979 Exxon Memo About Controlling Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Memo from Exxon Research & Engineering explaining that current climate models (in 1979) showed that status quo fossil fuel use would lead to “dramatic climate change” within 75 years.
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AMA Briefing: “Corporations and the First Amendment,” by Herbert Schmertz
A briefing on the importance of protecting corporate free speech.
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WSJ Story on Bellotti, Saved in Mobil Clippings
One way we know that Mobil Oil was closely following and supporting the Bellotti case in the 1970s are the many press clippings like this one saved in their archive.