Brimer v. A.T. Cross Company

On October 7, 2011, the Alameda County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Brimer v. A.T. Cross Company, which resolved citizen enforcer Russell Brimer's allegations that the defendant A.T. Cross Company ("A.T. Cross") sold books and journals containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, A.T. Cross agreed not to sell any books/journals in California after July 1, 2011, unless each accessible component of the books/journals contains less than 200 parts per million of lead when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $60,000, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower Brimer and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.