• What happened: Government agencies are increasingly partnering with private attorneys on a contingency fee basis to pursue public nuisance lawsuits against legal activities and products that we all use every day.
• How we got here: A perfect storm of activists’ inability to get their policies passed through the appropriate legislative process, government coffers in need of additional padding and opportunistic plaintiff’s lawyers have led to a surge in expansive and inappropriate public nuisance lawsuits. Go further in the TLR Advocate
• What about Texas? Across the country, Texas employers, like Frito Lay and Exxon Mobil, have found themselves in the crosshairs of activist public nuisance lawsuits. Here at home, the Texas Legislature will again have the opportunity in 2023 to pass legislation reining in out-of-control public nuisance lawsuits, sending a clear message to activist attorneys and judges that Texas won’t stand for regulation by litigation.
• TLR thoughts: Inappropriate public nuisance lawsuits aren’t going away any time soon. Texas needs to establish guardrails to keep these lawsuits from harming jobs and the affordability of products we use every day.

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