Rhode Island, Arkansas, Georgia, et al.
Amici Curiae
Patrick C. Lynch, Counsel of Record Rhode Island, Arkansas, and Georgia are joined in this brief by seven other States. Patrick C. Lynch has served as attorney general of Rhode Island since January 2003. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 17, 2010. The road to unconstitutional and unwise overregulation is paved with good intentions. Here, the manner in which California has acted — no matter how laudable its goals — runs afoul of the fundamental precept that government “shall make no law … abridging the…
