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Judge Rejects Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli's Probe of Climatologist's Global Warming Records. By Rosalind S. Helderman WashPost, August 31, 2010. "Virginia judge on Monday dismissed a civil subpoena issued by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II to the University of Virginia that had sought documents related to the work of a global warming scientist and former university professor... ruling that Cuccinelli had failed to state an objective reason to believe that professor Michael Mann committed fraud as he sought public grants to fund his research... Mann and his supporters cast the ruling as a victory for academic freedom and a sign that Cuccinelli's pursuit of the documents has been a politically motivated inquiry with thin legal backing... Cuccinelli, a vocal global warming skeptic who has contended that climate scientists have colluded to skew data, said he thinks that the documents are key to deciding whether to launch a fraud investigation into Mann's work. He said he plans to reissue the demand."