October 19, 2023 – Law 360 reported today on emerging developments in the case by the New York Attorney General against the National Rifle Association of America (NRA).
According to the reporting, Brewer counsel “Noah Peters told the Appellate Division, First Department, that a judge got it wrong when he dismissed the NRA's claim that the attorney general's political statements were the motivating force behind her civil financial fraud action accusing the NRA's leaders of funneling millions of dollars into their own pockets. The nonprofit has said James flaunted her hatred of the organization while campaigning in 2018. She won election that November.”
The June 2022 dismissal would "essentially insulate any retaliatory action undertaken by the attorney general so long as the attorney general could later point to some probable cause for her action," Peters told the four justices.
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