DiPirro v. Sherwin-Williams Company, et al.

Posted: 12/07/2001  browse the case archive

Citizen enforcer Michael DiPirro's allegations against the defendants The Sherwin-Williams Company and its subsidiary Dupli-Color Products Company were resolved on December 7, 2001, when the parties executed a Consent Judgment in DiPirro v. The Sherwin-Williams Company, et al. In this enforcement action, DiPirro alleged that the defendants sold automotive touch-up paints containing the solvent toluene in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, the defendants agreed not to sell any more automotive touch-up paint in California after October 31, 2002, unless the paint had Proposition 65 warnings provided.

The Consent Judgment required settlement payments of $98,850, to be divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which were paid to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and the remainder as compensation to whistleblower DiPirro and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.

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