The large paint company isn't just sitting around providing target practice for Motley Rice & Co. and the local-government entities it enlists as plaintiffs in its suits; it's filing pre-emptive litigation against a group of Ohio municipalities who've filed lead-paint actions, and even one that hasn't but is thinking about it. Jonathan Adler leads a discussion, Camera Lucida applauds the action, and Jane Genova provides extensive coverage and links here, here, here and here.