From HamptonRoads.com:
An Albemarle County judge has put Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's latest demand for documents related to a former University of Virginia climate-change researcher's work on hold.
Circuit Judge Cheryl Higgins granted a stay today until the Virginia Supreme Court rules on a related case.
Cuccinelli is investigating whether Michael Mann defrauded taxpayers by using manipulated data to obtain government grants. A judge ruled last year that Cuccinelli was not specific enough about how Mann might have broken the law, and that he lacks authority to investigate federal grants.
Cuccinelli, a global warming skeptic, appealed that ruling to the Virginia Supreme Court and filed a new, more specific demand pertaining to just one state grant. Higgins put that demand on hold.