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The NAM filed an amicus brief to oppose overbroad government investigations intended to chill corporate scientific inquiry, debate, and discussion. ExxonMobil sued the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts to challenge overbroad subpoenas and civil investigative demands seeking more than 40 years of communications between the company and other parties involving the topic of climate change. On appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the NAM’s brief explains that corporations contribute to important policy discussions involving economic, scientific and other issues of public concern and that expansive use of government investigatory powers can chill corporations’ contributions to the free exchange of ideas.