Those interested in the issue of the growing abuse of “public nuisance” as a cause of action can do little better than to read the law review article by Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP partners Richard O. Faulk and John S. Gray at 2007 Mich. St. L. Rev. 941, cited by the Rhode Island Supreme Court four times in its unanimous opinion rejecting public nuisance theory as a means to sue lead paint manufacturers (via Androvett).
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See page 959 for an error, “Protection of Unlawful Commerce in Arms Act”- it was the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act”