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Over the last several years, we here at Abnormal Use have chronicled the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s storied fight to ban the spherical desktop magnets known as Buckyballs.  While w...

https://abnormaluse.com/2015/08/cpsc-to-go-interstellar-against-space-buckyballs.html

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced a new educational campaign aimed at preventing furniture and television tip-over injuries and deaths.  According to the CPSC announce...

https://abnormaluse.com/2015/06/cpsc-reacts-to-tip-over-hazard-phenomenon.html

Several weeks ago, we here at Abnormal Use lamented the death of Buckyballs, the controversial desktop magnet, after its two year fight with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”). T...

https://abnormaluse.com/2014/08/buckyballs-dies-fight-against-cpsc-continues.html

Buckyballs, we hardly knew ye. Last week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a formal recall of the controversial product, putting an end to the two year fight with the product manu...

https://abnormaluse.com/2014/07/r-i-p-buckyballs.html

On a number of occasions, we  here at Abnormal Use have reported on the ongoing legal battle between the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) and the makers of a toy called Buckyballs (see...

https://abnormaluse.com/2014/05/cpsc-reaches-buckyballs-settlement-sets-dangerous-precedent.html

Back in 2011, Toys ‘R’ Us was hit with a $20.6 million verdict by a Massachusetts jury in a products liability case arising out of the death of 29-year old Robin Aleo.  The woman was killed ...

https://abnormaluse.com/2013/05/jury-awards-20-million-cpsc-decides-to-respond.html

Ever wonder what happens to the companies involved in all of those recalls ordered by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)? Many manufacturers sit back and conform to the CPSC’s demand...

https://abnormaluse.com/2013/01/nap-nanny-manufacturer-fights-cpsc-action.html

Recently, the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled custom-made horizontal and vertical blinds manufactured by Michigan-based Blind Express.  According to the CPSC report, the vertical bli...

https://abnormaluse.com/2012/09/cpsc-recalls-strangling-blinds-with-illustrations.html

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is at it again.  Now, the CPSC has recalled the Bear Grylls Parang Machetes manufactured by Gerber because, get this, the product allegedly is a laceration...

https://abnormaluse.com/2012/09/cpsc-cuts-machetes-over-laceration-hazard.html

The Consumer Product Safety Commission serves a necessary purpose.  According to its website, the CPSC is charged with the burdensome task of “protecting the public from unreasonable risks of ...

https://abnormaluse.com/2012/07/cpsc-aims-to-eradicate-buckyballs-outstretch-its-boundaries.html