Lemon Law – California 1985
"Rebellion by car buyers spreads from California to Ontario"
"From her home in Lemon Grove, California, Rosemary Shahan has put the squeeze on another kind of lemon–defective new cars. Not since Ralph Nader took on General Motors 20 years ago has a consumer crusader so shaken the automobile industry. Shahan is the mother of the Ślemon law'–legislation that requires automakers to repair or replace defective new cars."
– Toronto Star, July 4, 1985
Note: The legislator who authored California's Lemon Law is Assemblywoman Sally Tanner (D-El Monte), and she and her excellent staff, including Jay DeFuria and Kathleen Hamilton, deserve a great deal of credit and recognition for their courage and hard work to gain passage of the measure. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who as a state legislator held the first hearing on the lemon law in 1979, was also a major force behind successful passage of the landmark legislation. California's Lemon Law is now known as the Tanner Act, in honor of Assemblywoman Sally Tanner.