What Others Are Saying

     "The era of big government may be over, but the era of regulation through litigation has just begun."
     - Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor

     "Looking over the legal landscape of the past few years, there has been a tremendous redistribution of legal power away from Washington and back to the states. .It seems a logical conclusion that states must take on a larger law enforcement role. Who better than the state attorneys general to step into the void and ensure that the rule of law is enforced?"
     - Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General

     "There is no question that the state AGs are wielding tremendous power these days through civil litigation. They are a throwback to the activist agenda of making social change through the court system."
     -Tommy Wells, former chairman of the American Bar Association Litigation Section

     "No company is too big, no industry is exempt."
     - Michael Moore, former Mississippi Attorney General

     "The AGs and the plaintiffs bar seek not only payments for government programs, but changes in private business practices would never pass muster in state legislatures or Congress."
     - John Fund, columnist for the Wall Street Journal

     "Over the past decade, state governments and especially state attorneys general have assumed unprecedented powers to regulate the national and, indeed, the international economy. Trial lawyers and state attorney generals have led the way with novel and aggressive litigation campaigns."
     - The Competitive Enterprise Institute

     "AGs often use isolated instances of misconduct as a lever to discredit - and then to "reform" - perfectly legal, legitimate, and often efficient business practices."
     - Michael S. Greve, American Enterprise Institute

     "Over the last decade, private plaintiffs' lawyers have succeeded in persuading state attorneys general to retain them under contingency fee arrangements to bring purported enforcement actions in the attorney general's stead..Not surprisingly, the growing frequency of such arrangements has caused raised eyebrows."
     - Bounty Hunters on the Prowl: The Troubling Alliance of State Attorneys General and Plaintiffs' Lawyers