MeadWestvaco Corporation 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 December 19, 2005. In doing so, it became a member of a class of settling defendants who agreed to virtually eliminate the heavy metals...
On October 2, 2009, the San Francisco County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Held v. MeadWestvaco Corporation, et al. which resolved citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D., P.E.'s allegations that the defendant MeadWestvaco Corporation ("MWV") sold children's vinyl zipper pulls containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate ("...