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March 20, 2024 - Consumer Products, CPSC, Product Liability
CPSC at ICPHSO: Office of Compliance Activity
By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Matt Robinson
This second installment of our series highlights CPSC’s Office of Compliance Activity and continued aggressive enforcement efforts. Multiple presenters emphasized CPSC’s continued aggressive enforcement. Commenters frequently repeated the statistic that CPSC obtained over $52 million in civil penalties in its fiscal year 2023. Further,
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March 19, 2024 - Consumer Products, CPSC, Product Liability
CPSC at ICPHSO: 2024 Enforcement Priorities
By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Matt Robinson
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was well represented at the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization’s annual symposium in Orlando, which took place in February. Agency representatives provided a number of insights to consumer product safety stakeholders. This week, we will be
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March 14, 2024 - CPSC
Senate Confirms Doug Dziak as Fifth CPSC Commissioner
By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Matt Robinson
On March 7, 2024, the U.S. Senate confirmed Doug Dziak as a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), filling the final Commissioner seat that has remained vacant since Commissioner Dana Baiocco’s resignation on October 5, 2022. Even with this confirmation of Commissioner
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February 14, 2024 - Consumer Products, CPSC
Proposed Bill Seeks to Remove Cap on Civil Penalties Issued by CPSC
By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Matt Robinson
On January 25, 2024, Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced the Consumer Advocacy and Protection (CAP) Act, which would amend the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) to increase the maximum civil penalty for a single violation of the CPSA from $100,000 to $250,000 and remove
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December 08, 2023 - Consumer Products, CPSC, Product Liability
CPSC Imposes New Requirements for Button Cell and Coin Batteries Pursuant to Reese’s Law
By: Julie Y. Park, Matt Robinson and Cedar Hobbs
Button cell and coin battery manufacturers and importers need to know about new requirements that come into effect next year. On September 21, 2023, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), pursuant to its authority under Reese’s Law, published two rules imposing additional requirements for
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March 03, 2021 - Product Liability, Consumer Products, CPSC
Consumer Product Safety Enforcement To Heat Up Under Biden Administration
By: Erin M. Bosman and Julie Y. Park
More aggressive enforcement actions and increased regulatory activities under the Biden Administration are here. In President Biden’s first weeks, he is making good on his promise to reverse course from the previous administration’s product safety agenda. So far, we witnessed rare civil penalties against
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January 07, 2021 - Coronavirus (COVID-19), Autonomous Vehicles & Robotics, Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), Product Liability, MDL, Consumer Products, Class Action, Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), CPSC
How 2020 Changed Product Liability — And What's Next
By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Alexandra Preece Barlow
Erin Bosman, Julie Park, and Alexandra Preece authored an article for Law360 discussing how product liability regulation and litigation changed in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as upcoming trends. “In a year dominated by the pandemic and political
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September 21, 2020 - Product Liability, Trials, Consumer Products, CPSC
Court Finds No Private Right of Action Under Consumer Product Safety Act for Alleged Violation of Voluntary Standard
By: Erin M. Bosman and Julie Y. Park
The Eastern District of Tennessee recently ruled that there is no private right of action under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) for an alleged violation of a voluntary product safety standard.[1] The ruling narrows the claims in a pending lawsuit about hoverboards and
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March 31, 2020 - Coronavirus (COVID-19), Product Liability, CPSC
CPSC Recall Remedies in the Time of COVID-19
By: Erin M. Bosman and Julie Y. Park
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recognizes that companies everywhere are in the midst of responding to the impact of COVID-19 on business operations, including government stay-at-home orders that could see some operations temporarily close. Given these “extraordinary circumstances,” the CPSC issued a notice
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March 05, 2020 - CPSC
Is This Seat Open? Nancy Beck Tapped to Chair CPSC
By: Erin M. Bosman and Julie Y. Park
This week, President Trump announced that he intends to nominate Nancy Beck as Chair and Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The five-person CPSC has been short a member since the end of September 2019, when former Acting Chair Ann Marie Buerkle stepped
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Topic Archives: CPSC

CPSC at ICPHSO: Office of Compliance Activity

By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Matt Robinson

CPSC at ICPHSO: 2024 Enforcement Priorities

By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Matt Robinson

Senate Confirms Doug Dziak as Fifth CPSC Commissioner

By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Matt Robinson

Proposed Bill Seeks to Remove Cap on Civil Penalties Issued by CPSC

By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Matt Robinson

CPSC Imposes New Requirements for Button Cell and Coin Batteries Pursuant to Reese’s Law

By: Julie Y. Park, Matt Robinson and Cedar Hobbs

Consumer Product Safety Enforcement To Heat Up Under Biden Administration

By: Erin M. Bosman and Julie Y. Park

How 2020 Changed Product Liability — And What's Next

By: Erin M. Bosman, Julie Y. Park and Alexandra Preece Barlow

Court Finds No Private Right of Action Under Consumer Product Safety Act for Alleged Violation of Voluntary Standard

By: Erin M. Bosman and Julie Y. Park

CPSC Recall Remedies in the Time of COVID-19

By: Erin M. Bosman and Julie Y. Park

Is This Seat Open? Nancy Beck Tapped to Chair CPSC

By: Erin M. Bosman and Julie Y. Park