Cheney Gets No Love from the Courts

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Cheney Gets No Love from the Courts

Source: TheTip, 2003-04-17

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"You pretend there is no law on the books. You have no case," Edwards lectured Justice Department attorney Gregory Katsas.

Judge David Tatel added the government lawyers had not shown there would be harm done to the vice president if the lawsuit, by the private watchdog group Judicial Watch and environmental group Sierra Club , proceeded in the lower court.

Government lawyers late last year asked the appeals court to step into the lawsuit, which was filed to seek documents on the energy task force that Cheney directed in 2001.

The task force produced a policy paper calling for more oil and gas drilling and a revived nuclear power program.

Environmentalists say they were largely shut out of the decision-making process, while Cheney was meeting industry chieftains such as former Enron Corp . executive Ken Lay to discuss energy policy.

Cheney was the chief executive of energy and construction company Halliburton Co. from 1995 to 2000.

The administration has asked the appeals court to bar the lower court's "discovery" order telling the White House to either produce some task force documents or provide a detailed list of the documents it was withholding.
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