Held v. Disney Stores Worldwide; The Walt Disney Company; The Children's Place Retail Stores

Posted: 09/11/2009  browse the case archive

On September 11, 2009, the San Francisco County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Held v. Disney Store USA, LLC, which resolved citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D., P.E.'s allegations that the defendant Disney Store USA, LLC ("Disney") sold children's sporting toys 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 settlement, Disney agreed not to sell any sporting toys/children's items in California after July 31, 2009, unless the sporting toys/children's items contain no more than 1,000 parts per million of DEHP when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $17,000, to be divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower Held and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.

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