April 30, 2007

Bruce Nye gives a thorough summary of California's bounty-hunter "Prop 65" law, whose main safety effect is to create hundreds of thousands of meaningless “Warning, this building contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, reproductive and developmental harm” signs throughout the state. The post includes an extensive quote from the Consumer Defense Group v. Rental Housing Industry Members case. See also Overlawyered Apr. 8 and links therein.