On April 23, 2013, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David I. Brown granted California Attorney General (AG) Kamala Harris’s motion for judgment on the pleadings against the complaint of Plaintiffs Anthony Held, Russell Brimer, and John Moore, clients of The Chanler Group, and dismissing the case. Plaintiffs challenged the legality of the AG’s regulation...
Dr. Anthony Held, Russell Brimer, and John Moore, clients of The Chanler Group--whom previously filed a lawsuit against the California Attorney General (AG) challenging the validity of the AG's regulation (11 CCR sec. 3003) requiring citizen enforcers to file a motion to approve a Proposition 65 settlement at least 45 days before the hearing on the motion, rather than 16...
California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Attorneys General from eight other states sent a letter to Congress earlier this week to voice their opposition to the proposed Chemical Safety Improvement Act (CSIA), or S.1009, in its current form. The CSIA was proposed last month as an amendment to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
The Attorneys General wrote to...
Does the California Attorney General's Office have the power to unilaterally rewrite state law to require that Proposition 65 plaintiffs provide a whopping 45 days' notice for motions to approve settlements, instead of the statutorily allowed 16 days' notice? Dr. Anthony Held, Russell Brimer, and John Moore, clients of TCG, have challenged the Attorney General'...
