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Litigation

Jun. 25, 2011

Millennium Holdings Settles Out of Lead Paint Suit

Millennium Holdings LLC paid $8.7 million to 10 California counties and cities to be dismissed from a lawsuit over the marketing of lead paint pigment, lawyers representing the jurisdictions announced Thursday.

By Ben Adlin
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Millennium Holdings LLC paid $8.7 million to 10 California counties and cities to be dismissed from a lawsuit over the marketing of lead paint pigment, lawyers representing the jurisdictions announced Thursday.

In the public nuisance abatement suit, county counsel and city attorneys jointly allege that multiple defendants, Millennium among them, promoted the lead-based pigments despite knowledge of the products' health risks.

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