Posted on March 3, 2008
The California Attorney General’s office (“CAG”) wrote to Hirst & Chanler LLP (“H&C”), the predecessor firm to The Chanler Group, regarding Proposition 65 actions commenced by H&C clients alleging that certain lipsticks containing lead were being...
Posted on November 23, 2007
Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
A Sacramento Superior Court judge has approved a settlement calling for Burger King Corporation to install new broilers to purportedly reduce customer exposure to certain cancer-causing chemicals from its hamburgers.
Judge Shellyanne...
Posted on September 17, 2007
On September 4, 2007, the California Attorney General (“CAG”) filed an objection to a joint motion for approval of a Proposition 65 settlement and consent judgment in Leeman v. Burger King Corporation, CKE Restaurants, Inc. et al. (Sacramento County Superior Court, Case No. 06AS02168...
Posted on June 11, 2007
Excerpted from the full article at the New York Times:In the traditions of the Old West, California deputizes bounty hunters to help enforce its environmental laws.
But these deputies, who get to keep a quarter of any penalties they recover for the state, carry briefcases rather than pistols, and...
Posted on June 6, 2007
On May 11, 2007, the California Attorney General (“CAG”) sent a letter to Hirst & Chanler LLP (“H&C”), the predecessor firm to The Chanler Group, regarding the manner in which H&C and their clients pursued Proposition 65 matters involving lead in the surface...
Posted on May 23, 2007
The California Attorney General’s office (“CAG”) sent a letter to Hirst & Chanler (“H&C”), the predecessor firm to The Chanler Group, in response to a letter H&C had sent to the California Public Health Trust on May 8, 2007, advising the Public Health Trust...
Posted on July 20, 2006
The California Attorney General (“CAG”) sent a letter addressed to all attorneys who had served the CAG with notices of violation under Proposition 65 since January 1, 2005. The purpose of the letter was to list the mandatory elements of Proposition 65 notices to be served on alleged...
Posted on July 15, 2006
Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
Proposition 65 settlements in 2005 declined substantially compared to the year before but were stronger than in previous post-SB 471 periods, figures released recently by Attorney General Bill Lockyer show...
Clients represented by...
Posted on June 22, 2006
Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
Following up on two 60-day notices sent in February, Whitney Leeman has filed a complaint, Leeman v. Burger King, in Sacramento County Superior Court against fast food restaurants that allegedly sell flame broiled hamburgers...
Posted on November 15, 2005
Excerpted from the full length article at Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:
A meat industry attempt to get a state court to declare that Proposition 65 warnings on beef would be barred by federal law should be tossed out as a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), argues attorney Clifford...
