openmarket.org - 1/26/2009
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A consumer-product safety law recently passed by Congress will drive up the price of children’s clothes and toys and put thousands of small toymakers and children’s clothing makers out of business . (We wrote earlier about how it will enrich trial lawyers and “ may actually harm safety “). As ...
cpsc.gov - 2/1/2009
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The views expressed in these Advisory Opinions are
those of the Office of the General Counsel. Unless...
indicated otherwise in the Opinion, they have not been reviewed or approved by the Commission. These views were based on the best available ...
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Information on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement ...
forbes.com - 1/23/2009
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forbes.com —
Last Friday, I wrote about how the testing
requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA)...
threaten to drive out of business tens of thousands of small makers of children's products; the law also menaces thrift shops with legal ...
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Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act--II
pajamasmedia.com - 1/20/2009
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Overlawyered —
... Incubator;
“[T]he only feasible alternative is for Congress to delay implementation. Many in Congress will not agree to this, in part, because of pressure from the consumer groups ….However, Congress may do something this week or next to either clarify the law, give further guidance on legislative intent to the CPSC, or maybe even delay implementation.” [Ross/Product Liability Prof Blog]. More from the law and policy blog world: Prince/PLProf; Bader/CEI “Open Market”; Bill Childs, TortsProf.
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Regulate First, Think Later . . . or Never
The Corner on National Review Online —
... Safety Commission (CPSC) has advised that a second-hand store could be subject to lawsuits or even criminal penalties for selling them. Even antique lead soldiers sold as collectibles for display, rather than as play toys, could conceivably trigger punishment. The CPSC has reacted to criticism by announcing a stay in testing requirements for a year, but Quin explains why that actually offers no relief. I wrote about this a while back on OpenMarket (as did Hans Bader here ), while Walter Olson has been all over the subject on Overlawyered . I can't think of a ...
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