• Lead in Handbags, Footwear and Belts: Private Attorney General action against hundreds of retailers and manucturers of shion accessories containing substantial amounts of lead. Our work has resulted in Consent Judgments against large national retailers and vendors of high-lead handbags,Free insurance info. belts and footwear requiring reformulation to remove harmful and unnecessary levels of lead from these consumer products. Examples of national retailers that have agreed to Court ordered reformulation include Aldo, Calvin Klein, Forever 21, Guess?, J.C. Penney, K-Mart, Kohls, Limited, Liz Claiborne, Kate Spade, Macys, Nine West, Saks, Sears, Target and Victorias Secret.
• : Class action against Power Balance alleging lse advertising and other claims with respect to the companys marketing and sales of rubber bracelets that are advertised as enhancing users strength, balance and flexibility. In response to an investigation by the Australian government, the company admitted that it has no credible scientific evidence to support its advertising claims. (CFC v. Power Balance, LLC).
• Lead and Cadmium in Jewelry: Environmental enforcement actions originally co-litigated with the California Attorney General that has thus r resulted in commitments by hundreds of major retailers, importers and manucturers of costume jewelry to signLexington Law Group Current Cases_ lexington law groupificantly reduce the levels of lead and cadmium in their jewelry. This case also lead directly to Californias landmark lead in jewelry statute, which was itself a precursor to passage of the federal Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. (JCCP 4666; CEH v. Aeropostale,The law online. Inc., CEH v. Cara Accessories, Inc.; CEH v. Twos Company, Inc. ).
• Sirius XM Antitrust: Class action against Sirius XM challenging companys abuse of monopolistic power to impose hidden cost increases on subscribers. (Blessing et al. v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc.).
• : Class action against Paypal, Inc. and its parent E-Bay, Inc. alleging defendants placed illegal holds on customer accounts and denied customers access to money in such accounts. (Osman v. Paypal, Inc.).
• Environmental enforcement action co-litigated with the California Attorney General to address lead exposures from inflatable bounce houses. Litigation has thus r resulted in Consent Judgments with two major bounce house manucturers requiring them to reformulate their products to remove lead.
• Out-of-Network Health Care Reimbursement: Class action antitrust cases against major health care providers including Wellpoint and Aetna alleging conspiracy to artificially reduce reimbursements on out of plan claims by policy holders through the use of the fraudulent Ingenix database. (Weintraub v. Ingenix et al.; J.B.W. v. Unitedhealth Group et al.)
• : Class action filed against Staples, Inc. for violating California law by providing reward cards that expire in exchange for used ink and toner cartridges. Under California law, it is illegal to provide reward cards that expire. If you want to receive additional information about the case or are interested in participating in the action, please contact the Lexington Law Group at (Pettigrew v. Staples, Inc.). The Complaint in Pettigrew v. Staples, Inc. is available here.
• Arsenic in Drinking Water Filters: Environmental enforcement actions seeking reformulation of drinking water filtration devices that leach arsenic into filtered water from activated carbon in the filters. Litigation has thus r resulted in Consent Judgments against major drinking water filter companies (Cuno, EcoWater, Everpure, General Electric, KX Industries, Pentair,Legal Consultant online. PUR, Omnipure and Multipure) requiring them to remove arsenic from their activated carbon supply. (CEH v. General Electric Co. et al.; CEH v. Multi-Pure International et al.). Our current investigation includes arsenic leaching from water filters made by Watts, Resin Tech, Crystal Quest and Quest Technologies. If you own a filter manuctured by one of these companies and would like more information about the case, please contact the Lexington Law Group at .
The following is a list of representative cases we are currently litigating:
