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  • December 17, 2013shutterstock_60731548_edited
    Statement by Bonnie J. Campbell on Behalf of Defendants in People of the State California, et al. v. Atlantic Richfield Company, et al.     
  • December 17, 2013
    Where The Court Went Wrong 
  • December 16, 2013
    Statement by Bonnie J. Campbell on Behalf of Defendants in People of the State California, et al. v. Atlantic Richfield Company, et al. 
  • September 23, 2013
    Statement by Bonnie J. Campbell on Behalf of Defendants in People of the State California, et al. v. Atlantic Richfield Company, et al. 
  • July 15, 2013
    Statement by Bonnie J. Campbell on Behalf of Defendants in People of the State California, et al. v. Atlantic Richfield Company, et al.

 

  • [The Missouri and New Jersey Supreme Court decisions] certainly combine to take away any momentum that lead paint plaintiffs might otherwise have had.

    Howard Erichson Law Professor- Seton Hall University

  • “This could precipitate the worst plunge in California home values since the housing crash of 2007.”… “[The ruling will have] frightening consequences.”

    Giuseppe Veneziano President, Los Angeles County Boards of Real Estate

  • “Before continuing on with this lawsuit, I believe that the [Los Angeles County] Board [of Supervisors] should carefully consider the impact on the housing market.”

    Giuseppe Veneziano President, Los Angeles County Boards of Real Estate

  • “To satisfy the inspection and abatement processes will cost thousands of dollars. Prospects for these homes will be turned off. Insurance, mortgages and property values will all be affected…It’ll be a nightmare.”

    Warren Rohn Executive Director, Los Angeles County Board of Realtors

  • “The lawsuit is even less appealing because the industry itself, as far back as the early 1900s, funded impartial research into the risks. When risks from children eating paint chips were first identified in 1948, the industry worked with public health officials to investigate.”

    Steven Thomas Investor\'s Business Daily

  • “The case shouldn’t have survived this long because public nuisance laws simply don’t apply. Besides, the dangers of lead are already being effectively mitigated in California.”

    James Copeland Director, Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy

  • “Overall, the reduction of lead exposure since 1978 has been a public policy success. Children’s exposure has dropped more than 99% since the late 1970s.”

    James Copeland Director, Manhattan Institute\'s Center for Legal Policy

  • “The suit is especially odd since California has some of the lowest blood lead levels in the country. […] That sounds more like a public health success than cause for a lawsuit. Lead paint that has long been painted over doesn’t pose a health threat if it is properly maintained.”

    Editorial: California’s Lead Zeppelin The Wall Street Journal

  • “The remedy the plaintiffs are seeking—stripping away old lead paint—actually is not what public health experts recommend. Instead, federal and state environmental and health officials generally urge that lead paint be left intact and maintained.”

    Bloomberg Business Week August 16, 2013

  • “The bottom line is that with little scientific evidence in their favor, trial lawyers are moving the goal posts to make it easier for them to score a massive verdict in this case. The fact that the paint removal may stir up lead dust and may cause more harm than good is less than an afterthought compared to the millions in potential fees.”

    Tom Scott Executive Director, California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse

  • “California already requires landlords to address any existing lead-based paint dangers. It is the failure to maintain painted surfaces that creates an immediate health hazard.”

    Bloomberg Business Week August 16, 2013

  • “The plaintiffs argue that the companies knew lead was toxic as early as 1900, but the quotations in question clearly refer to large quantities employed in industrial settings, not tiny quantities trapped in the paint on your walls; we lacked the analytical and epidemiological tools in the early 20th century to detect small, widespread effects.”

    Megan McArdie Bloomberg View

  • “The State had laws in regard to the quality and composition of paint—and the industry met them. Now that the regulations have changed, the industry is being sued because they did what they were ordered decades ago.”

    Stephen Frank California Political News & Views

  • “No matter what plaintiffs’ lawyers allege, it would take quite a powerful crystal ball to know in the 1920s — when the federal government was endorsing the use of lead interior paint — that enhanced scientific knowledge would later find that product to be dangerous.”

    Lisa A. Rickard San Jose Mercury News

  • “Many of the key business decisions being sued over took place closer to Abraham Lincoln’s time than to our own, and if the companies had gone to twenty leading lawyers of the day and asked, `could this ever lead to nuisance liability under such-and-such facts’ would have been told `of course not’.”

    Walter Olson Senior Fellow, Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies

  • “In 1984, Winston Smith was entrusted with rewriting history. “We are at war with Eastasia. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.” Today, selling lead based paint would be bad, so Judge Kleinberg concludes that it has always been bad. Trouble is, it hasn’t. But hey, it’s all about removing paint from poorly maintained homes, and who cares if we sacrifice the Rule of Law to make shareholders of innocent corporations pay for it? Welcome to our Orwellian tort travesty.”

    Michael Krauss Forbes

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