Te'o v. CP Technologies, et al.

On November 26, 2008, the Alameda County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Te'o v. CP Technologies, which resolved citizen enforcer Jamie Te'o's allegations that the defendant CP Technologies ("CP") sold products with solder containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, CP agreed not to sell any controller cards, external hard drives, card readers, cables, adapters, and hubs with solder in California after July 30, 2008, unless the products are sold or shipped with Proposition 65 warnings or contain no more than .1% of lead by weight in each solder material (unless the material is embedded in a manner that a consumer or worker would not ordinarily come into contact with the lead during reasonably foreseeable use). Due to CP's prompt cooperation and commitment to reformulation, Te'o agreed to credit a portion of the civil fine that would otherwise be applied.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $41,000, 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 Te'o and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.