Cuccinelli originally requested the documents in early 2010 after the Climategate scandal broke, an event that prompted accusations of fraud and corruption against key IPCC global warming researchers. One of them is Michael Mann, a former University of Virginia employee. It was during his tenure there he conducted taxpayer funded research and came up with his infamous "hockey stick" graph warning of pending eco-catastrophe. IPCC has based many of its global warming claims on this graph, but a congressional investigation found it to be fraudulent.
Cuccinelli submitted his request as Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs) related to five grants Mann used to conduct his research. The attorney general wanted to determine if taxpayers' money had been fraudulently obtained or spent by UVA. The university answered by hiring a high-dollar law firm that argues "enforcing [the CIDs] will set a harmful precedent for the Commonwealth and all of its institutions of higher learning." UVA contests the CIDs because it says they violate its First Amendment rights of "academic freedom."
Exit question. Is lying an academic freedom?
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