Dollar Empire LLC elected to address its Proposition 65 liability by opting into the terms of the Consent Judgment entered by the San Francisco Superior Court in the matter of Russell Brimer v. The Boelter Companies, et al. on November 14, 2005. In doing so, it became a member of a class of settling defendants who agreed to virtually eliminate the heavy metals lead and...
On May 12, 2009, citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D., P.E. and settling defendant Dollar Empire, LLC (“Dollar Empire”) entered into an out-of-court Settlement Agreement, which resolved Held’s allegations that Dollar Empire sold children’s wear with vinyl components containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“DEHP”) in...
On June 22, 2011, the San Francisco County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Brimer v. Dollar Empire, LLC, which resolved citizen enforcer Russell Brimer's allegations that the defendant Dollar Empire, LLC ("Dollar Empire") sold vinyl-coated paper fasteners in the State of California containing the heavy metal lead without providing the requisite...
