Posted On: August 18, 2008, 2:04 pm CDT

Posted By: Tom

Agreed - also, as I recall, the product was perfectly legal at the time it was produced and sold, and the ultimate responsibility for its application and use rests with the landlords who have failed to abate the lead exposures. The solution has been out there for decades, and it's not the paint companies' responsibility. So, it was a vast stretch of a legal theory in an attempt to hold an industry retroactively responsible on a collective basis. That's a gross abuse of public power, and the state should be held financially responsible.