Lawyers for Target are asking a judge to throw out a shareholder lawsuit that blasts the. retailer for having “divisive and extreme” environmental, social and governance priorities, saying the plaintiff’s allegations of securities law violations related to its ESG disclosures are completely baseless.

“Ultimately, plaintiff’s grievance is not with Target’s disclosures, but with its business decisions,” according to the 68-page response to the suit filed by the Minneapolis-based company’s attorneys at Kirkland & Ellis and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath. “That plaintiff dislikes the outcome of those decisions does not show that Target lied about its approach and does not state a securities claim.”

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