DiPirro v. Newegg Inc.

On May 27, 2009, the Alameda County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in DiPirro v. Newegg Inc., resolving citizen enforcer Michael DiPirro's allegations that the defendant Newegg Inc. ("Newegg") distributed and/or sold motherboards with solder containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, Newegg agreed not to sell any motherboards in California after March 31, 2009, unless the only point of exposure to lead in the motherboards is embedded in a manner that a consumer or worker would not come into contact with lead during any reasonably anticipated use or the motherboards are sold or shipped with Proposition 65 health hazard warnings.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $30,000, to be divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower DiPirro and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.