Civil Litigation,
Administrative/Regulatory
Aug. 3, 2018
Proposition 65 meets common sense
Recent events suggest that courts and regulators are finally understanding that things have gone too far with regard to private plaintiff actions.
Joshua A. Bloom
Principal
Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson PLC
environmental law
555 12th St Ste 1500
Oakland , CA 94607
Phone: (800) 464-3559
Fax: (510) 444-1108
Email: jbloom@meyersnave.com
University of San Francisco School of Law
Joshua is in the firm's Land Use and Environmental Law Practice Groups. With more than 25 years of experience, he specializes in all areas of state and federal environmental and natural resources law, including complex environmental litigation, brownfields, environmental aspects of transactional matters, and compliance counseling, representing both public and private clients.
California's Proposition 65, although well-intentioned and in many instances providing consumers necessary information with regard to products they consume or use, has also been used as a vehicle for plaintiffs and their counsel to reap huge financial benefits rather than to benefit the public. The law has long been the bane of retailers and manufacturers, and frequent legislative efforts to tame the law's worst tendencies -- in the words of Gov. Jerry Brown, "shakedo...
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