Posted on 09/05/2018 9:09:56 PM PDT by massmike
When companies get in trouble over their advertisements, it usually happens quickly. In the case of Sherwin-Williams Co., it took more than a century.
The paint maker is fighting a California court ruling that ordered it and two other companies to collectively pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for promoting lead paint over several decades, when they allegedly knew or should have known it was hazardous. The litigation has highlighted Sherwin-Williams ads dating back to 1904.
Sherwin-Williams SHW, +0.50% and its co-defendants in July petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case, arguing that they were unaware of the health risks of lead before it became accepted science and are being improperly punished for truthful advertising about a product that was legal at the time. The federal government banned the use of lead paint in homes in 1978.
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Well, leaded gasoline tended to “Cover the Erf” too.
This is nonsense. California is trying to find another cash cow. Corrupt and crooked.
This is nonsense. California is trying to find another cash cow. Corrupt and crooked.
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That’s exactly it.
Too bad conservatives couldn’t all leave Calif. That place is the pits.
Hundreds of millions of people grew up around lead paint and leaded gasoline and suffered no ill effects.
Will we be able to sue Jerry Brown’s estate for all the evil he has foisted on us?
Never used it. I’m a Dunn Edwards customer.
Yeah, I had my Pb and Hg levels checked a decade ago and were not above the concern level.
As a kid I never had the chance to eat peeling paint. All of the paint in the houses was fresh lead paint.
Plus no Asbestos issues.
We even got to monkey around with mercury in our hands and on desks as kids.
Still kicking [knock on wood].
#7. Any lawsuit against Gov. Moonbeam would have to be filed with the Center for Disease Control because he is batshit crazy and it has spread like a disease throughout California.
So just WHY now, do some children get ill/or worse from said paint?
Well, when this all began, they said that the kids were EATING paint chips that had flakes off walls.
Now, they claim that it's just being around walls that have been painted over and over and over, but lead paint is underneath.
Since millions of kids grew up in homes that had paint containing lead in it and they were fine ( around leaded gasoline too and smokers! ) it does make one wonder about the real cause/s of today's children with "problems".
In 1904 people knew lead was poisonous. They didn’t expect people to chow down on it like it’s an entree.
Complete insanity. If i ran a multimillion dollar company i would call a meeting and say to the execs. Plan now. We not not operate or sell or have anything to do with california by next july 1st. To hell with them.
And we actually played outside, with other kids and no mommies or daddies hovering over us.
Did you wear seat belts?
Did you wear a helmet when riding a bike?
Could you play outside unsupervised by adults?
Sherwin-Williams paint colors are the best. Until recently we’ve used Home Sepot or Menards paint. There’s something about SW that just makes it look better.
If this lawsuit somehow raises the price of SW I’m going to be angry. I finally convinced my husband that buying it on sale (40% off Memorial Day weekend and Veterans Day) was close enough to HD prices that it was doable for us. Last time we bought 12 gallons so we are set for the time being.
I remember seeing that image on a billboard when I was a kid and telling my dad that it scared me.
Did I have a BB gun at an early age?
Wear a gunbelt with dual cap six shooters to Kindergarten?
It’s actually all about government “environmental” employees making up problems so they can keep their phony jobs.
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