Six years into its battle, tiny-magnet maker Zen Magnets has won another key round against the Consumer Product Safety Commission in court, persuading a Colorado federal court to reverse a Commis...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/06/zen-magnets-prevails-in-cpsc-action/
“Special economic zones can be anything from tools of crony capitalism to seeds of a freer world order.” 33 state constitutions have “baby Ninths,” which like federal version suggest exi...
Last year the Tenth Circuit struck down the CPSC’s ban on tiny desk magnet sets. Pursuing the legal consequences of an earlier recall order, however, the CPSC has required the destruction of $4...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/06/cpsc-product-may-legal-youll-still-need-destroy/
Redistricting, transit farebox, Court of Appeals, decriminalizing barbers, and more in my latest Maryland policy roundup And I’m quoted on the highly unpersuasive “six-state compact” schem...
Report: FBI investigation of Prenda lawyer Paul Hansmeier now extends to his mass ADA filings Meanwhile: “Sanctioned Austin ADA attorney now targeting websites” “It is a crime to ‘allow...
A Tenth Circuit panel has sent the Consumer Product Safety Commission back to the drawing board in its attempt to ban tiny magnet sets intended for adult use as a desk toy or creative outlet acce...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/11/circuit-court-strikes-cpsc-rule-adult-magnet-sets/
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Brian Schatz (D-Haw.) call for federal investigation into AirBnB effects on housing market “Santa Monica convicts its first A...
Do lawyers find ways to litigate over the effects of the leap day, Feb. 29, that is inserted into the calendar every four years? Glad you asked Weren’t regulations supposed to have fixed this,...
The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission has been seized by a passing fit of sense on a question of regulatory stringency, and the result could be to save makers of harmless apparel and foo...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/03/breaking-cpsc-does-something-sensible/
Safe Drinking Water Act along with other federal laws helped scare consumers away from public fountains and tap water, with unintended bad consequences for health and the environment Austin, Tex...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/08/environment-roundup-22/