Anthony Held, John Moore, and Laurence Vinocur--clients of The Chanler Group--served eleven 60-Day Notices of Proposition 65 Violation last week. The notices were served to companies offering products such as furniture, hand tools, and gloves for sale in California containing chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, without the required health hazard warning...
Excerpted from full article at Furniture Today:
Proposition 65 legal firm The Chanler Group says it plans to publish a list of furniture manufacturers that have come up "clean" in testing for toxic flame retardants.
The Chanler Group has served more than 100 sixty-day notices of violation on furniture manufacturers alleging the presence of the flame retardant...
Excerpted from the full article at the Environmental Leader:
OfficeMax, Ross Stores and Kinwai USA are among the nine manufacturers and retailers that law firm The Chanler Group is suing under California’s Proposition 65. The group has also served more than 100 violation notices on leading furniture manufacturers and retailers,...
Last month, Peter Englander, John Moore, and Laurence Vinocur, clients of The Chanler Group, commenced Proposition 65 private enforcement actions against manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of upholstered furniture, alleging that the products offered for sale by these entities contain the flame retardant TDCPP, chemicals known to the State of California to...
The Chanler Group has served more than 100 “Sixty-Day Notices of Violation” on leading furniture manufacturers alleging the presence of flame retardants TDCPP and TCEP, referred to more simply as Tris, in their products. The Chanler Group’s clients, Peter Englander, Laurence Vinocur, and John Moore assert that unwarned exposure to Tris is a violation of...
Excerpted from full article at Prop 65 News:
Citizen enforcer Whitney Leeman, Ph.D. has filed three Proposition 65 enforcement actions against prominent national food suppliers in San Francisco Superior Court. Named in the lawsuits are spice and flavoring manufacturer McCormick & Company, Inc., coffee and flavoring manufacturer Farmer Bros. Co.; as well as Adams...
A Proposition 65 trial involving the alleged presence of lead in baby food began this week in Oakland, Calif. The lawsuit was filed by the Environmental Law Foundation, a nonprofit organization, which seeks injunctive relief from the Court, ordering that the companies making and selling the baby food—including Beech-Nut, Del Monte, Dole, Gerber, and Smucker’s...
Excerpted from the full article at the Environmental Leader:
Law firm the Chanler Group has filed Proposition 65 civil complaints in the Superior Court of California against spice and flavoring manufacturer McCormick & Company, coffee and flavoring manufacturer Farmer Bros., and Adams Extract & Spice, LLC. The complaints charge the three defendants with distributing...
For the first quarter of 2013, citizen enforcers represented by The Chanler Group have secured civil penalties under Proposition 65 in excess of $1 million from businesses offering consumer products for sale in California containing chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm without first providing the required health hazard warning.
After a court approves a...
Excerpted from the full article at FoodBev.com:
The Chanler Group, a US environmental law firm, has filed Proposition 65 civil complaints against three prominent US food suppliers.
Spice and flavouring manufacturer McCormick & Company, coffee and flavouring manufacturer Farmer Bros and Adams Extract & Spice.
The complaints charge the three defendants with distributing...
