CONSUMER CAUSE, INC. v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON

No. B176381.

34 Cal.Rptr.3d 258 (2005)

132 Cal.App.4th 1175

CONSUMER CAUSE, INC., Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON et al., Defendants and Respondents; Bill Lockyer, as Attorney General, etc., Objector and Appellant. [And four other cases.]

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

September 22, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, Tom Greene, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Theodora P. Berger, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Edward G. Weil, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, for Objector and Appellant.

Morse Mehrban and the Law Offices of Morse Mehrban for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Jeffrey B. Margulies, Susan Y. Lee and Fulbright & Jaworski, Los Angeles; David B. Sadwick and Tatro Tekosky Sadwick; and Michael J. Steel and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents.


ARMSTRONG, J.

This is a Proposition 65 (Health & Saf. Code, §§ 25249.5 et seq.)1 case brought by a private organization called Consumer Cause against a number of manufacturers of stainless steel surgical stents and similar implantable surgical devices.2 The complaints alleged that the devices were composed of nickel and nickel compounds, chemicals known to the State to cause cancer, and that the...

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