On April 14, 2016, citizen enforcer Whitney R. Leeman, Ph.D. and settling party Barnes & Noble, Inc. (“Barnes & Noble”) entered into an out-of-court settlement agreement. Leeman had alleged that Barnes & Noble sold vinyl/PVC art case handles containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“DEHP”) in the State of California...
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...
On May 6, 2011, the San Francisco County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Moore v. Barnes & Noble, Inc., et al., which resolved citizen enforcer John Moore's allegations that the defendant Barnes & Noble, Inc. ("Barnes & Noble") sold books containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate ("DEHP") in the State of...