Litigation

Great Big Huge Proposition 65 Decision? -- Well, Sort Of

By Bruce Nye

This morning's San Francisco Chronicle reports on a $10 million Proposition 65 judgment against T-A Creations for selling 100,000 lead-tainted children's lunch boxes to the California Department of Public Health Services (maybe if you're going to sell toxic lunch-boxes, the Department of Public Health isn't such a good choice as a customer).

Hmm, thought I, that's a mighty big judgment even in these modern times, I wonder what the trial was like and what the decision says.  Well, it turns out there wasn't a trial, and there wasn't a decision -- this was a default judgment, the kind the plaintiff gets when the defendant doesn't get around to filing an answer to the complaint.  Here's the judgment.

Full post as published by CalBizLit on May 22, 2008 (boomark / email).