Davis to Clinton: Stop Shoah meddling
by Gov. Gray Davis last week sent a letter to the Clinton Administration asking the federal government to stay out of California's, The state has appealed a preliminary injunction that prohibits it from enforcing the Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act -- a
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"Supporting the insurance companies challenge to the HVIRA will not benefit Holocaust survivors," Davis wrote in a letter dated Sept. 8.
"If your office determines to file such a brief, I respectfully urge that the brief not support the insurance companies' attacks on the HVIRA."
Insurance companies filed a lawsuit earlier this year in federal court in Sacramento, claiming HVIRA is unconstitutional.
In June, a federal judge halted enforcement of the law -- which allowed the state to strip uncooperative insurers of their California licenses -- on the grounds that it may impair U.S. foreign policy and violate the foreign commerce clause of the constitution.
The state has a Sept. 20 deadline to file a reply brief in the appeals process. An appeals hearing is expected in October, said the state's lead attorney on the case, Frank Kaplan.
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