Breaking: Judge rules against Cuccinelli's witch-hunt aimed at Michael Mann and climate science

An Albemarle  County Circuit Court  judge has ruled that the Virginia attorney general's office has not demonstrated a "reason to believe" that the University of Virginia has documents and materials that are relevant to its investigation into possible fraud by former U. Va. climate science professor Michael Mann.

In a six-page decision, Judge Paul M. Peatross Jr. also ruled that the attorney general also has not sufficiently "stated the nature of the conduct" believed to constitute possible...