A lawsuit filed in Sacramento Superior Court by three California unions seeks a ruling banning public funds from being used for the production of video news releases [3]. VNRs produced by the Schwarzenegger administration [4] have backed moves to remove workers' lunch break guarantees [5] and opposed legislated nurse-to-patient staffing ratios [6]. A California Health and Human Services Agency spokeswoman defended the use of VNRs. "There is no statutory prohibition [7] against the use of public funds to produce video news releases. ... No court has expressly disapproved the expenditure of public funds for VNRs," she said.