From pointoflaw.com:

“This spring sixteen state attorneys general filed an amicus brief with the Rhode Island Supreme Court in support of the state’s public nuisance suit against former lead paint manufacturers, a dubious cause if there ever were one. The roster of signers includes quite a few AGs whose closeness to trial-lawyer interests has caused us unease in the past, including Drew Edmondson (Oklahoma)….”

OKPNS FLASHBACK 7/10/07

A Deal for the Public: If You Win, You Lose

Adam Liptak, the national legal correspondent of The New York Times, writes the “Sidebar” column for the newspaper. The column covers and considers developments in the law. Liptak weighs in on Drew Edmondson and the “poultrygate” scandal the Oklahoma press refuses to cover.
When Oklahoma’s attorney general decided to sue about a dozen poultry companies, saying they had polluted the state’s waterways with chicken manure, he did not turn to lawyers on his staff or hire an outside law firm that would bill in the usual way, by the hour.

Instead, Attorney General W. A. Drew Edmondson went into business with three plaintiffs’ firms, agreeing to pay them as much as half of any money they recovered from the poultry companies. Read more…

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Flashback: Turpen-Edmondson “Doing It For the Children” (and $268 million)