Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
An effort by Attorney General Jerry Brown to raise questions about a series of Proposition 65 settlements involving a chemical that has also been separately regulated by a new law have met with only limited success.
Alameda Superior Court Judge Robert Freedman approved, with some modifications, a pair of...
Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
California Attorney General Jerry Brown and Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo are pushing forward a $2 million court settlement with The Coca-Cola Company that includes what is apparently the largest single penalty payment in the history of Proposition 65.
The deal awaiting approval by a Los Angeles...
Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
A Sacramento Superior Court judge has approved a settlement calling for Burger King Corporation to install new broilers to purportedly reduce customer exposure to certain cancer-causing chemicals from its hamburgers.
Judge Shellyanne W.L. Chang’s November 8 endorsement of the Proposition 65 deal between...
Excerpted from the full article at the New York Times:In the traditions of the Old West, California deputizes bounty hunters to help enforce its environmental laws.
But these deputies, who get to keep a quarter of any penalties they recover for the state, carry briefcases rather than pistols, and their critics say their tactics amount to legalized extortion. All it takes to...
Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
Proposition 65 settlements in 2005 declined substantially compared to the year before but were stronger than in previous post-SB 471 periods, figures released recently by Attorney General Bill Lockyer show...
Clients represented by veteran Proposition 65 litigator Clifford Chanler or his law firm, Hirst &...
Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
Following up on two 60-day notices sent in February, Whitney Leeman has filed a complaint, Leeman v. Burger King, in Sacramento County Superior Court against fast food restaurants that allegedly sell flame broiled hamburgers containing polyclci aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
Leeman claims that Burger King and...
Excerpted from the full length article at Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
A meat industry attempt to get a state court to declare that Proposition 65 warnings on beef would be barred by federal law should be tossed out as a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), argues attorney Clifford Chanler in a new filing in the case.
The industry’s San Diego Superior Court...
Excerpted from the full length article at Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
While the rest of us were lounging at the beach working on our tans, Prop. 65 plaintiffs Russel Brimer and Whitney Leeman were as they say, making hay while the sun shined.
In nine cases settled since July they have received $358,499. This amounts to $91,800 in penalties, of which they get to keep a $22, 950....
Excerpted form the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
With the latest group of 60-day notices from Russell Brimer and Whitney Leeman, clients of Prop. 65 Connecticut-based attorney Clifford Chanler, have put them way ahead of other plaintiffs in filing notices this year. Together they have filed 146, leaving the other plaintiffs in the dust. The closest other...
Excerpted from the full article at Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
At end of summer, a flurry of 60-day notices were sent by Proposition 65 plaintiffs Russell Brimer and Whitney Leeman. Both are represented by Connecticut-based attorney Clifford Chanler. The 30 new notices and two amended letters were sent to manufacturers, distributors and retailers of painted glass and ceramic ware...
