Marion Morrison
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Kavanaugh and gorsuch should be impeached pronto!!!!!! How dare they go against big companies ...
Supreme Court lets stand California ruling holding lead paint makers liable for $400-million cleanup cost - Los Angeles Times
Supreme Court lets stand California ruling holding lead paint makers liable for $400-million cleanup cost
Supreme Court lets stand California ruling holding lead paint makers liable for $400-million cleanup cost
By DAVID G. SAVAGE
OCT 15, 2018 | 7:25 AM
WASHINGTON
This file photo shows the U.S. Supreme Court Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Karen Bleier / AFP/Getty Images)
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a closely watched big-business challenge to a California court ruling that requires former makers of lead paint to pay $400 million or more to clean up old homes.
Business lawyers said they feared the California ruling based on the “public nuisance” doctrine will give a green light to other suits seeking to hold manufacturers liable for damage inflicted on the public, including the opioid crisis and climate change.
The ruling in the lead paint case arose when 10 California local governments, including Los Angeles County, brought a “public nuisance” suit against the companies that once sold lead paint. They argued that lead is a proven toxin that can cause brain damage to children and that companies that once sold this paint should pay now for the cleanup, even though lead paint was legal and commonly used prior to the 1960s.
Ssssss--they think they got CONSERVATIVE justices out of Niel Gorsuch & Brett Kavanaugh-- Trump and every GOP candidate during the 2016 election PROMISED them that. After all, you never know who Hillary Clinton would have picked.
Well she might have picked Niel Gorsuch or Brett Kavanaugh, as she voted to confirm both of them to the District Court of Appeals, under G.W.Bush in 2006. A time when Democrats were the Senate majority and could have easily rejected them, as they had done with so many of G.W's nominees, these two came through that gaunlet with flying colors.
Niel Gorsuch is the only nominee in my memory that stated during confirmation hearings that Roe v Wade was precedent in the Constitution meaning, set in stone.
Gorsuch to Feinstein: Abortion ruling is 'precedent'
Well.. look at that! I was right. Ted Cruz next or GFY.