FEATURED PROJECTS
Our Work
Our practice is built on a simple conviction that the law can be used as a source of good. We channel our skills into two distinct but deeply connected areas, partnering with nonprofits to drive public interest and public impact litigation, while also bringing consumer class actions to hold corporations accountable.
Across both arenas, our goal remains the same—achieving meaningful, widespread benefit for the communities, groups, and clients we serve.
The Center for Environmental Health
The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the public from toxic chemicals in our air, food, water, and everyday consumer products. Its committed team utilizes a combination of scientific research, community advocacy, and with Lexington Law Group’s help, litigation to force corporate accountability and eliminate environmental health hazards.
For nearly thirty years, Lexington Law Group has represented CEH in enforcing California’s Proposition 65. These cases routinely catalyze industry-wide changes and have resulted in the elimination or reduction of numerous hazardous chemicals from California’s waterways, our air, and hundreds of thousands of everyday consumer products and even legislation codifying the results of CEH’s litigation.
Key Outcomes
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CEH’s Proposition 65 lawsuit to eliminate the discharge of lead into California’s drinking water sources caused by lead-containing automobile wheel weights sparked the passage of a California bill to ban the sale of all lead-containing wheel weights statewide.
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CEH’s Proposition 65 lawsuit to protect children from lead-tainted candy resulted in new industry practices eliminating large amounts of lead in candy and eventually the passage of a California bill to ban the sale of lead-tainted candy statewide;
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CEH’s Proposition 65 lawsuit to protect Californians from cadmium in jewelry resulted in industry-wide reforms to reduce the presence of cadmium in jewelry and eventually led to a California bill to ban the sale of cadmium-tainted children’s jewelry statewide;
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CEH’s Proposition 65 lawsuit to protect the communities of Hacienda Heights and Whittier from toxic emissions emanating from the Quemetco battery recycling facility, which resulted in neighborhood monitoring and protections against lead and arsenic in the soil.
The Last Beach Cleanup
Led by its founder, Jan Dell, The Last Beach Cleanup (LBC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment through ending plastic pollution.
Key Outcomes
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Lexington Law Group has achieved multiple legal victories in helping LBC further its mission of reducing plastic waste, including favorable resolution of lawsuits against Target Corporation and Sprouts, Inc. in first of their kind enforcement actions involving California’s landmark plastic carryout bag prohibition law and earlier enforcement actions against multiple plastic bag producers and stores over alleged violations of California’s single use carryout bag prohibition.
Foundation Aiding The Elderly
The Foundation Aiding the Elderly (FATE) is a Sacramento-based nonprofit organization that advocates for patients in long-term care facilities and nursing homes. FATE focuses on protecting seniors from elder abuse and neglect by advising families on patient rights, reporting regulatory violations to authorities, and taking legal action to enforce elder care laws.
Key Outcomes
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In 2006 Lexington Law Group brought suit on behalf of FATE against the California Department of Health Services (“DHS”) over the agency’s failure to enforce staffing requirements at nursing homes throughout the state. FATE ultimately prevailed in the lawsuits, winning an injunction that required DHS to issue new regulations and set strict per patient staffing requirements at nursing homes in California.
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In 2020 Lexington Law Group brought suit on behalf of FATE against the California Department of Public Health (“DPH”) over the agency’s failure to timely investigate complaints at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. FATE won another injunction in this case, which required DPH to immediately investigate its backlog of complaints and to adhere to strict time constraints moving forward.
Environmental Democracy Project
Environmental Democracy Project (EDP) is an Oakland, California based environmental justice non-profit dedicated to protecting vulnerable communities of color that are disproportionately exposed to pollution and toxic chemicals in their air, water, soil, food, and consumer goods.
Key Outcomes
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EDP, with Lexington Law Group’s help, obtained a preliminary injunction against cannabis cultivators in East Oakland over their illegal operation of tractor-trailer-sized diesel generators that were polluting the surrounding areas with highly toxic diesel particulate matter.
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Lexington Law Group has favorably resolved numerous cases on EDP’s behalf under the California Organic Food and Farming Act, preventing large groups of retailers and manufacturers from overstating the “organic” nature of their products.
CLASS ACTION VICTORIES
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Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.
Lexington Law Group’s first of its kind case against the makers of K-Cup coffee pods, Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. over the company’s misleading representations that its pods were “recyclable” resulted in millions of dollars returned to consumers and changes in Keurig’s marketing and labeling practices surrounding the “recyclability” of its coffee pods.
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Cosmetics Companies
Lexington Law Group’s class action cases against companies like The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. and Todd Christopher International over their fake “organic” cosmetic products, resulted in multi-million dollar class recoveries and the agreements by these companies to begin complying with California’s Organic Food and Farming Act.
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Siri Privacy
Class counsel in landmark $95 million settlement with Apple Inc. on behalf of users of Siri-enabled products over allegations that Apple, through its voice-activated assistant Siri, violated users’ privacy by recording private and confidential conversations without consent.