BERKELEY, CA – The Chanler Group, www.chanler.com, the nation’s leading law firm that represents citizens acting in the public interest to enforce Proposition 65, announced today that it supports the reforms proposed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to strengthen and restore the intent of Proposition 65 to protect Californians from exposures to harmful...
The Chanler Group, the nation’s leading law firm that represents citizens acting in the public interest to enforce Proposition 65, announced today that it supports the reforms proposed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to strengthen and restore the intent of Proposition 65 to protect Californians from exposures to harmful chemicals found in consumer products. The...
On April 23, 2013, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David I. Brown granted California Attorney General (AG) Kamala Harris’s motion for judgment on the pleadings against the complaint of Plaintiffs Anthony Held, Russell Brimer, and John Moore, clients of The Chanler Group, and dismissing the case. Plaintiffs challenged the legality of the AG’s regulation...
This week, the California State Assembly’s Committee on the Judiciary voted 10-0 to pass a dramatically revamped version of the proposed legislative amendment to Proposition 65, known as Assembly Bill (“AB”) 227. The bill was originally written to provide anyone receiving a 60-Day Notice of Violation of Proposition 65 with fourteen days to correct the...
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported on the potential risk of phthalates and Bisphenol A (BPA) being released when food is microwaved in plastic containers. Several phthalate chemicals have been designated by California as chemicals known to cause cancer and reproductive harm, and BPA has been designated as known to cause reproductive harm, although a...
A study carried out in California’s San Joaquin Valley demonstrated a possible link between high air pollution and birth defects. The results were posted in The American Journal of Epidemiology.
Even adjusted for smoking, maternal age, multivitamin use, and other variables, researchers found that a mother living in areas with the highest levels of carbon monoxide...
Excerpted from full article at mfrtech.com:
On behalf of its clients, The Chanler Group has also filed lawsuits against nine major manufacturers and retailers, demanding action be taken to properly label their products in compliance with California's Proposition 65. The lawsuits come after previously served Sixty-Day Notices of Violation expired without being enforced by...
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...
A Sacramento County judge granted a preliminary injunction today in favor of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) in their case against California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). The injunction requires that OEHHA remove the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) from California’s Prop 65 list of chemicals known to cause reproductive harm,...
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...
