DiPirro v. Walt Disney Company, et al.

Posted: 05/07/2002  browse the case archive

Citizen enforcer Michael DiPirro's suit against Walt Disney Company concluded on May 7, 2002, when a Consent Judgment was executed in DiPirro v. Walt Disney Company, that resolved DiPirro's allegations that Walt Disney Company sold glass and metal frames containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

Walt Disney maintains that it stopped selling the covered products upon receipt of Mr. DiPirro's 60-Day Notice of Violation. As part of the settlement, Walt Disney Company agreed to place health hazard warnings on the covered products sold after May 6, 2002.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $21,000, 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.

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