About UsIs It Too Much Of A Nuisance For the Attorney General's Office To Do Its Job?
Ted Lieu, who’s angling for the job of California Attorney General, thinks plaintiffs’ lawyers should take over the role of the elected representatives and the appointed public servants who oversee the complex enforcement of statutory and regulatory rules affecting California consumers. Read More »
Pairing AGs and Private Attorneys
Legal Newsline (owned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform and member of the Public Nuisance Fairness Coalition) has an interview of Joe Speelman, spokesman for the Coalition, describing attempts by the plaintiffs' bar to expand public nuisance liability in a variety of ways, and criticizing state and local governments' complicity with those attempts - particularly when government plaintiffs hire outside private counsel on a contingency fee basis. Read More »