DiPirro v. Northern Tool & Equipment Co., et al.

Posted: 05/07/2003  browse the case archive

A Consent Judgment in the DiPirro v. Northern Tool & Equipment Co., et al. matter, heard in the Alameda County Superior Court, was entered on May 7, 2003. The Consent Judgment resolved citizen enforcer Michael DiPirro's allegations that the defendant Northern Tool & Equipment Co. sold power tools containing lead (or lead compounds), crystalline silica, arsenic and/or chromium (hexavalent compounds) in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, Northern agreed it would not knowingly sell, in California, products unless such products contain Proposition 65 health hazard warning labels as prescribed in the Consent Judgment.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $11,500, 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.

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