Bonnie Campbell, who is a former AG herself from Iowa, serves the role of spokespeep for this story, and makes a very interesting point about arguments being made in the brief (you have to read the story) being at odds with laws back in the brief signatories states. Did you follow that?

“Lead pigment is silently poisoning hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of children in states throughout the country every year,” the brief says. “The attorneys general are greatly, and justifiably, concerned about this continuing danger.”Lead paint was outlawed in 1978, and plaintiffs firm Motley Rice convinced former Rhode Island Attorney General Shelden Whitehouse to hire it on a contingency fee to bring the first state-backed case over the issue in 1999.

An attorney at Motley Rice thought of using a claim of public nuisance as a way around certain defenses, like the tolled statute of limitations.

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