Defendant BRE Parc 55 Owner, LLC (“Parc 55”) and whistleblower Whitney R. Leeman executed a Consent Judgment on February 5, 2014. In this case, Leeman alleged that Parc 55 sold flame-cooked ground beef products containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including benz[a]anthracene, benzo[a]pyrene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, benzo[k]fluoranthene, and indeno[1,2,3...
On February 29, 2008, citizen enforcer Whitney R. Leeman, Ph.D. and settling defendant Texas Turkeys, Inc. doing business as Armadillo Willy’s (“Texas Turkeys”) entered into an out-of-court Settlement Agreement, which resolved Leeman’s allegations that Texas Turkeys sold certain flame-broiled hamburgers including, but not limited to, the Hickory...
The parties in the enforcement action Leeman v. Firehouse Restaurant executed a Consent Judgment on October 21, 2013, which resolved citizen enforcer Whitney R. Leeman, Ph.D.’s allegations that the defendant Firehouse Restaurant, Inc. (“Firehouse”) sold flame-cooked ground beef containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including benz[a]anthracene, benzo[a]...
Citizen enforcer Whitney R. Leeman, Ph.D. and settling parties BPR Properties Corporate, LLC and BPR Properties Berkeley, LLC (collectively “BPR”) executed an out-of-court Settlement Agreement on April 12, 2013. In this matter, Leeman alleged BPR sold flame-cooked ground beef burgers containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including benz[a]anthracene,...
The parties executed an out-of-court Settlement Agreement on March 25, 2013, which resolved citizen enforcer Whitney R. Leeman, Ph.D.’s allegations that the settling party Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, LLC (“Kimpton”) sold flame-cooked ground beef containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including benz[a]anthracene, benzo[a]pyrene, benzo[b]...
The parties in the enforcement action Leeman v. Pacific Hospital Group, LLC; Estancia Hotel, LLC executed a Consent Judgment on March 15, 2013, which resolved citizen enforcer Whitney R. Leeman, Ph.D.’s allegations that the defendant Estancia Hotel, LLC (“Estancia”) sold flame-cooked ground beef burgers containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, including...
Peter Englander, Whitney Leeman, and Laurence Vinocur--three clients of The Chanler Group--served ten 60-Day Notices of Proposition 65 Violation last Friday, May 17. The notices were served to companies offering products such as furniture and hand tools for sale in California containing chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, without the required health...
Russell Brimer, Peter Englander, Whitney Leeman, and Laurence Vinocur--clients of The Chanler Group--today served a total of twenty-two 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 on companies offering products for sale in the State of California containing chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, without providing the requisite health-hazard warning....
In her ongoing efforts to protect the public in California against exposure to carcinogenic chemicals found in flame-cooked hamburgers, Dr. Whitney Leeman, a client of The Chanler Group, has recently issued a dozen new 60-Day notices for restaurants and stores that serve flame-cooked burgers found to contain such chemicals. Dr. Leeman expects to serve additional notices to...
Beginning in late-2005, Dr. Whitney Leeman, a client of The Chanler Group, began investigating risks to human health from cancer-causing chemicals found in flame-cooked hamburgers sold in restaurants. When meat is cooked over an open flame, chemicals called polycyclic—pronounced polly ∙ sigh ∙ click—aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs for short, are formed. ...
