DiPirro v. QVC Inc., et al.
In the case DiPirro v. QVC, Inc., et al., the two parties executed a Consent Judgment on June 29, 2001, which resolved citizen enforcer Michael DiPirro's allegations that the defendant QVC Inc. ("QVC") sold glassware containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.
As part of the settlement, QVC agreed not to sell any glassware in California after September 15, 2001, unless the glassware has Proposition 65 warnings provided.
The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $75,000, 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.