Englander v. Allen Company Inc.

The parties involved in the case Englander v. Allen Company Inc. executed a Consent Judgment on June 21, 2018.  In this matter, citizen enforcer Peter Englander alleged that Allen Company Inc. (“Allen Company”) sold shooting/range bags with vinyl/PVC components containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“DEHP”) in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.  

 

As part of the agreement, Allen Company agreed not to sell any shooting/range bags with vinyl/PVC components in California after the Marin County Superior Court approves the Judgment, unless the bags contain no more than 1,000 parts per million of DEHP when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies OR have Proposition 65 warnings provided.

 

The Consent Judgment required settlement payments of up to $27,500, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower Englander and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.