DiPirro v. Wilson Sporting Goods Co., et al.

In DiPirro v. Wilson Sporting Goods Co., et al., the parties executed a Consent Judgment on April 25, 2001, which resolved citizen enforcer Michael DiPirro's allegations that the defendant Wilson Sporting Goods Co. ("Wilson") and Apple Sports Inc. ("Apple"), a licensee of Wilson, sold sporting equipment containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, Wilson agreed not to sell in California any of the sporting equipment identified in Exhibit A in the Consent Judgment after April 21, 2001, unless the sporting equipment has Proposition 65 warnings provided. Should Wilson comply with the voluntary penalty reductions outlined in Section 3.1 of the Consent Judgment, DiPirro agreed to waive a portion of the civil fine that would otherwise be applied.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $20,000, 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.