Michael E. Mann, known for his infamous ‘hockey stick’ climate graph, must pay over $500,000 in legal fees after spending years trying to silence National Review with a baseless lawsuit. Here’s an excerpt from their response:
For more than eight years, the climate scientist Michael Mann harassed National Review through litigation over a blog post — until, eventually, the First Amendment brought an end to his attack. This week, a court in our nation’s capital ordered Mann to pay us $530,820.21 worth of attorney’s fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days. It is time for him to get out his chequebook, and sign on the dotted line.
This restitution is welcome, if incomplete. As was made clear during the discovery process, Mann’s explicitly stated intention was to use a “major lawsuit” as a vehicle with which to “ruin National Review”. Happily, Mann failed in this endeavour. But, while all’s well that ends well, his failure exacted costs nevertheless. Between 2012 and 2019 — with the courts inexplicably refusing to apply legal provisions ostensibly designed to prevent frivolous lawsuits such as Mann’s — we were forced to spend a considerable amount of time and money defending ourselves against his malicious, meritless suit. …
The promise of American law is that there will be material consequences for bad behaviour, and, after twelve years, there finally have been. Mann’s behaviour throughout has been appalling. Now, he must pay up.
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