Before filing one of the largest lawsuits in the history of the United States, Attorney General Tregarrick Taylor must have put a lot of deep thought into his claim that the state is owed more than $700 billion from the federal government.
And he would have quoted chapter and verse of multiple documents to keep from making himself and his $600-an-hour attorneys the subject of ridicule in the legal world, right?
And he would have had someone check the grade-school math.
Nope.
The only justification for one of the largest lawsuits in U.S. history is no justification at all.
It consists of this sentence on page 9 of the lawsuit: “In 2010, one EPA estimate of the Pebble deposit was $700 billion, or $700 million per year for 100 years.”
That’s it.
