Held v. Y.M.I Jeanswear, Inc.

On January 6, 2012, the Marin County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Held v. Y.M.I Jeanswear, Inc., which resolved citizen enforcer Anthony Held, Ph.D., P.E.'s allegations that the defendant Y.M.I. Jeanswear, Inc. ("Y.M.I.") sold jeans with belts containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate ("DEHP") in the State of California without providing the requisite Proposition 65 warnings.

As part of the settlement, Y.M.I. agreed not to sell any belts in California after November 7, 2011, unless such belts contain less than or equal to 1,000 parts per million of DEHP when analyzed pursuant to state and federally approved testing methodologies.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $28,000, 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.