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Frank J. Janecek, Jr. received his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of California at Davis in 1987, and his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School in 1991. He is admitted to the Bar of the State of California, the district courts for all districts of California, and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits. For 11 years, Mr. Janecek has practiced in the areas of consumer, Proposition 65, taxpayer and tobacco litigation. He has participated as a panelist and a speaker in continuing legal education programs relating to California's Unfair Competition laws, public enforcement tobacco litigation and challenging unconstitutional taxation schemes.
Mr. Janecek litigated several Proposition 65 actions, including People ex rel. Lungren v. Super. Ct., 14 Cal. 4th 294 (1996), which was jointly prosecuted with the Attorney General's office. These actions resulted in the recovery of more than $10 million in disgorgement and/or civil penalties and warnings to consumers of their exposure to cancer causing agents and reproductive toxins. Mr. Janecek chaired several of the litigation committees in California's tobacco litigation, which resulted in the $25.5 billion recovery for California and its local entities. Mr. Janecek also handled a constitutional challenge to the State of California's Smog Impact Fee, in the case Ramos v. Dep't of Motor Vehicles, No. 95AS00532 (Cal. Super. Ct., Sacramento County). As a result of the Ramos litigation, more than a million California residents received full refunds, plus interest, totaling $665 million.
Mr. Janecek is the co author with Patrick J. Coughlin of A Review of R.J. Reynolds' Internal Documents Produced in Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 939359 - The Case that Rid California and the American Landscape of 'Joe Camel' (January 1998), which, along with more than 60,000 internal industry documents, was released to the public through Congressman Henry Waxman. He is also the author of California's Unfair Competition Act and Its Role in the Tobacco Wars (Fall 1997). Mr. Janecek is a member of the American Bar Association, the California Bar Association, the San Diego County Bar Association and the Consumer Attorneys of California and San Diego.
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