{"id":16492,"date":"2024-02-29T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T22:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=16492"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T03:13:23","slug":"municipality-of-san-juan-v-exxon-mobil-corp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=16492","title":{"rendered":"<i>Municipality of San Juan v. Exxon Mobil Corp.<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically all of the other &#8220;ExxonKnew&#8221;-style lawsuits needed long dissections on my part \u2014 one needing a 2-part blog post to ultimately point out obvious faults with people who promote this law fare \u2014 to detail what fell apart within their accusations about what&#8217;s implied to be &#8216;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/TheNation-MoD-Liars-for-Hire2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">liars-for-hire<\/a> employed to carry out disinformation campaigns created by fossil fuel companies<\/em>.&#8217; When I say this &#8216;technically&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240304010125\/https:\/\/climatecasechart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/case-documents\/2023\/20231213_docket-323-cv-01608_complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">johnny-come-lately <em>San Juan v Exxon<\/em> lawsuit<\/a>, filed on December 13, 2023, is easy for me to dissect, I&#8217;m not kidding. In fact, in the sheer simplicity of taking apart <em>San Juan v Exxon<\/em> only underscores the massive problem with the other lawsuit that needed two blog posts to reveal all its faults. So, the question needing to be answered about <em>San Juan<\/em> is: <strong><em>why it was filed at all?<\/em><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The dead giveaway pointing toward the fatal faults of <em>San Juan<\/em> is inadvertently seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/ClimCaseChart-San-Juan-similar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ClimateCaseChart site&#8217;s entry for it<\/a>: <em>The complaint, which was <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">similar to<\/span> the complaint filed by multiple Puerto Rico municipalities in 2022<\/em> \u2026<\/p>\n<p>No. Not similar to \u2014 <strong><em>identical.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the faults I show in the following screencapture images, simply go to my 2-part <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=13867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dec 23, 2022<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=14908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan 3, 2023<\/a> dissection of <em>Puerto Rico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2713 <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ye-olde-explanatione.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ye olde<\/em><\/a> reposition global warming memos: <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/San-Juan-reposit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>San Juan<\/em><\/a> vs <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Puerto-Rico-reposit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Puerto Rico<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2713 The &#8220;E. Erie&#8221; misread name: <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/San-Juan-E-Erie.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>San Juan<\/em><\/a> vs <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Puerto-Rico-E-Erie.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Puerto Rico<\/em><\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s actually &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/UCS-clearly-Bill-Brier.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Brier<\/a>&#8221; and the other is &#8220;DeM<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>i<\/em><\/strong><\/span>chele&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Milberg-UCS-E-Erie.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with an &#8220;i&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2713 &#8216;Advertorials&#8217; attributed (falsely, in 3 of the 5 references) to the Western Fuels Association &#8220;ICE&#8221;-acronym public relations campaign: <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/San-Juan-v-Milberg-ICE-ads-1024x693.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>San Juan<\/em> vs <em>Puerto Rico<\/em><\/a> &#8211; <em>San Juan<\/em> strangely omits &#8220;<em>The following images<\/em>&#8221; paragraph seen immediately above the ads in <em>Puerto Rico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2713 <em>Ye olde<\/em> &#8220;victory will be achieved&#8221; memo set: <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/San-Juan-victory-retyped.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>San Juan<\/em><\/a> vs <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Milberg-Victory-retyped-clearly.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Puerto Rico<\/em><\/a> &#8211; <em>San Juan<\/em> simply scrunched the Milberg Coleman law firm&#8217;s retyping efforts of those otherwise <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/DocCloud-Victory-Davies-copy2-1024x506.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murky lousy Greenpeace-sourced<\/a> memos to fit onto the same page with the paragraph describing them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2713 Richard Lawson memo: <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/San-Juan-v-Milberg-Lawson-para-1024x437.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>San Juan <\/em>vs <em>Puerto Rico<\/em><\/a> &#8211; here, the law firm handling <em>San Juan<\/em> clumsily omits the paragraph number following the Lawson memo paragraph, inadvertently implying by default that the next paragraph is a continuation of the point about Lawson when it actually has nothing to do with Lawson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2713 &#8220;Bankroll scientists&#8221; &#8211; right down to the oddball &#8220;LegiStorm&#8221; link about Dr Willie Soon: <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/San-Juan-bankroll-sci.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>San Juan<\/em><\/a> vs <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Milberg-bankroll-sci.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Puerto Rico<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Readers probably get the point by now, but one more especially egregious one to hammer it home:<\/p>\n<p>\u2713 Accusation of the late Dr S Fred Singer being a participant in the ICE PR campaign when he had nothing to do with it: <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/San-Juan-Singer-ICEd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>San Juan<\/em><\/a> vs <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Milberg-Singer-ICE-work.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Puerto Rico<\/em><\/a> &#8211; just like in <em>Puerto Rico<\/em>, the footnote citation for the accusation about Dr Singer goes to a <em>New York Times<\/em> article that <strong><em>never mentions<\/em><\/strong> Dr Singer&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>The false accusations against Dr Singer and Dr Soon alone should get <em>Puerto Rico<\/em> thrown out of court, and by default, also this <em>San Juan<\/em> lawsuit \u2026.. and, oh yeah \u2026. also <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=15628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Oregon <em>County of Multnomah v Exxon<\/em> case<\/a>, since it <strong><em>also<\/em><\/strong> has every appearance of <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Multnomah-v-Puerto-Rico-Singer-ICE.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plagiarizing accusation sections<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Multnomah-Soon-bankroll.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plural<strong><em>!<\/em><\/strong><\/a> &#8211; out of <em>Puerto Rico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The filing of <em>San Juan<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/davidefronlaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by a law firm<\/a> that doesn&#8217;t appear to mention having any involvement or expertise in climate issue litigation, makes no sense whatsoever. <em>Puerto Rico<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Puerto-Rico-already-covers-SJ.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already covered the city of San Juan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the simple question: what is actually going on here with this case? Is this an example of a renegade law firm trying to shoehorn its way into potential giant fossil fuel industry litigation settlement cash, oblivious to how the effort may be a gift on a silver platter to basically all of the &#8220;ExxonKnew&#8221; lawsuit defendant companies, from <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Delaware-Honolulu-reposits.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Delaware to Honolulu<\/a>, and from <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Multnoma-v-Puerto-Rico.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Caribbean to the Pacific Northwest Rainforests<\/a>, when it refocuses attention on how vulnerable <em>Puerto Rico<\/em> is to total collapse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically all of the other &#8220;ExxonKnew&#8221;-style lawsuits needed long dissections on my part \u2014 one needing a 2-part blog post to ultimately point out obvious faults with people who promote this law fare \u2014 to detail what fell apart within &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=16492\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[164,135],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16492"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17999,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492\/revisions\/17999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}