As You Sow v. Parker-Hannifin Corporation, et al.

The Superior Court of California in and for the county of San Francisco entered a Consent Judgment in 1995 in As You Sow v. Parker-Hannifin Corporation, et al., which resolved private enforcer As You Sow's allegations that the defendant Parker-Hannifin Corporation ("PHC") sold certain paints and solvent products containing toluene in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, PHC agreed as of September 1, 1995, that it would not ship (or cause to be shipped) the covered products unless such products were accompanied by a Proposition 65 health hazard warning in compliance with section 1 of the Agreement.

The Consent Judgment required settlement payments of $4,500, divided therein between a restitution payment made to the Rainforest Action Network and a cost payment to the whistleblower As You Sow as compensation for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.