Vinocur Settles with Sport Squad Re: DEHP in Racquet Cases

Laurence Vinocur and Sport Squad LLC have reached a settlement for alleged Proposition 65 violations.  Proposition 65 requires companies offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and/or reproductive harm to provide consumers with a warning of the risk of exposure.  Vinocur alleged that Sport Squad did not provide such a warning with racquet cases that contained the phthalate chemical DEHP, known to the State to cause birth defects and other reproductive harm.

In addition to paying civil penalties, Sport Squad has agreed to sell only racquet cases in California that have been reformulated to be virtually free of DEHP.

For more details and to read the settlement itself, please see the case summary on our website: Vinocur v. Sport Squad LLC.

The Chanler Group represents citizen enforcers who, acting in the public interest, commence actions against businesses offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm without first providing the health hazard warning required by Proposition 65. Citizen enforcers bringing Proposition 65 actions in the public interest may obtain a Court Judgment imposing civil penalties, an injunction requiring reformulation of products, and/or provision of health hazard warnings