Left-wing activists have targeted local courts as an avenue for achieving their policy goals in areas where they cannot get elected.
from the Alliance for Consumers , trial lawyers will advance public nuisance claims in order to change public policy.to Republican governors, AFC Executive Director O.H. Skinner says, “With victories through the legislative process becoming harder to achieve, the progressive left is increasingly looking to an alliance of activists, officials, and trial lawyers to weaponize the judicial system against conservatives and impose key policy priorities by way of public nuisance lawsuits.
Historically, public nuisance claims have been torts defined as an “unreasonable interference with a right common to the general public.” Examples of such lawsuits are the discharge of chemicals into a community or blocking a public road. The advance into changing public policy started in the 1970s, where environmentalists sued on behalf of the public to address pollution — broadening the definition of the tort to include “public interest,” instead of the narrower “public right.”
At least in regard to opioid settlements, there are policies in place to steer the money toward addressing the crisis — something that did not happen in the big tobacco settlements.to line the pockets of left-wing trial lawyers who are notorious for diverting victim payouts away from victims, investing heavily in far-left candidates , filing junk lawsuits, and elongating trials in order to rack up billable hours.
In an attempt to target fossil fuels and others in the energy industry, trial lawyers have tried to make the claim that energy production causes a public nuisance by contributing to climate change. While such claims have been largely shot down by courts, it only takes a couple rulings to start down a path where energy companies can be held responsible for the weather.
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