PEOPLE EX REL. LUNGREN v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S047833.

14 Cal.4th 294 (1996)

THE PEOPLE ex rel. DANIEL E. LUNGREN, as Attorney General, etc., Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent; AMERICAN STANDARD, INC., et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

December 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Theodora P. Berger, Assistant Attorney General, Craig C. Thompson and Edward G. Weil, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner. Roger Beers, Gregory D. Totten, Edwin F. Lowry, David Roe, Catherine M. Steane, Albert H. Meyerhoff, James R. Wheaton, Hannah Bentley, Alice Chang Kaufman, Christine A. Mailloux, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Berzon & Rubin, Fred H. Altshuler, Mary Lynne Werlwas, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, William S. Lerach, Alan M. Mansfield, Frank J. Janecek, Jr., Timothy G. Blood, Bushnell, Caplan & Fielding, Alan M. Caplan, Philip Neumark and April M. Strauss as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Landels, Ripley & Diamond, Raymond F. Lynch, Mary J. Decker, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Patrick C. Marshall, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Patrick J. Cafferty, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Pecos Bill Field, Burditt & Radzius, Richard O. Wood, Leslie Krasny, Morrison & Foerster, Michele B. Corash, Robin M. Shapiro, Robert L. Falk, Beveridge & Diamond, James L. Meeder, Robert D. Wyatt, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, Gary Tavetian, L. Victor Bilger, Jr., Katten, Muchin, Zavis & Weitzman and David M. Bass for Real Parties in Interest.

Pappy & Davis, George A. Pappy, Christopher M. Micheli, Fred L. Main, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Michael J. Van Zandt, Stephen M. Levine, William G. Ives, Robin Grover, Morrison & Foerster, Seth Hufstedler and Shirley M. Hufstedler as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Health & Saf. Code, §§ 25249.5-25249.13),1 adopted by the people at the November 4, 1986, General Election as Proposition 65 (hereinafter referred to as the Act or Proposition 65), provides in material part that "[n]o person in the course of doing business shall knowingly discharge or release a chemical known to the...

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