Move ESG Retirement Rule Lawsuit to Different Court, DOL Says

A lawsuit by more than two dozen Republican state attorneys general seeking to curtail the US Labor Department’s recently implemented do-good retirement investment rule was incorrectly brought in a North Texas federal court as plaintiffs shopped for a friendly forum, according to a new motion filed by the agency.

The department in a late Tuesday filing said the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s Amarillo division has “no connection whatsoever to this dispute,” and called for the Jan. 26 lawsuit to be moved the US District Court for the District of Columbia, or a jurisdiction where the ...