Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company

March 18, 2016
The parties involved in the case Leeman v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company executed a Consent Judgment on March 18, 2016.  In this matter, citizen enforcer Whitney R. Leeman, Ph.D. alleged that Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company (“Houghton”) sold books with vinyl/PVC covers containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the...
Lead
August 21, 2015
Last week, Dr. Whitney R. Leeman filed a complaint in San Francisco County Court against Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company and Barnes & Noble alleging violations of Proposition 65.  Leeman alleges that the defendants sold books with covers that contained the heavy metal lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and/or...