Posted on April 22, 2016
Mark Moorberg has reached a settlement with Gartner Studios regarding allegations that Gartner sold notebooks with vinyl/PVC covers that contained the phthalate chemical DEHP without the requisite health hazard warning. DEHP is known to the State of California to cause birth defects and other...
Posted on April 19, 2016
Members of The Chanler Group will be at the 4th Annual Law Rocks San Francisco, a "Battle of the Bands" style fundraiser featuring bands comprised of members of the legal profession. Generator, a classic rock band featuring TCG attorney Brian Johnson on guitar, will be raising money...
Posted on April 12, 2016
Paul Wozniak has negotiated a settlement with Harold Import Company, resolving allegations that Harold sold nylon cooking utensils containing the chemical 4,4'-MDA without the requisite health hazard warning. 4,4'-MDA is a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, and...
Posted on April 6, 2016
Dr. Whitney R. Leeman has filed a complaint in San Francisco County Superior Court against Frankford Candy LLC, alleging that Frankford Candy violated Proposition 65 by selling mugs with exterior designs containing the heavy metal lead without a health hazard warning to consumers. Proposition...
Posted on March 29, 2016
Dr. Anthony Held has issued dozens of 60-Day Notices of Proposition 65 Violation to sunscreen manufacturers and retailers, alleging that they offered octocrylene-containing sunscreens to consumers in California without the requisite health hazard warning. Octocrylene contains benzophenone,...
Posted on March 29, 2016
Kilgore Flares Company and subcontractor ESM Group Inc. have agreed to pay the federal government $8 million to resolve allegations that the companies knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims by selling defective infrared countermeasure flares to the U.S. Army and evading...
Posted on March 25, 2016
Respironics Inc. has agreed to pay $34.8 million to resolve allegations that the company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to state and federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week.
The United States alleged that Respironics...
Posted on March 24, 2016
TCG clients Dr. Anthony E. Held and Peter Englander have issued 13 new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 to companies offering products such as disposable gloves, sunscreen, and fuel pump nozzles in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer and/or reproductive...
Posted on March 22, 2016
Dr. Anthony Held has filed a complaint in Alameda County Superior Court against medical supplies distributor Smarthealth, Inc., alleging that Smarthealth sold disposable gloves in California that contained the phthalate chemical DINP without the requisite health hazard warning. DINP is known...
Posted on March 22, 2016
Bard College has agreed to pay $4 million in order to resolve allegations that the college violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with the conditions of federal grant money, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California announced earlier this month.
Bard...
