Comments on: CPSIA: CPSC announces 1-year enforcement stay

By: CPSIA & dirtbikes: temporary stay, no permanent relief

CPSIA & dirtbikes: temporary stay, no permanent relief — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:36:54 +0000

[…] it’s 1) granting a temporary stay of enforcement on the vehicles, just as in February it granted such a temporary stay with respect to some of CPSIA’s most impractical testing obligations […]

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:01:28 +0000

Can someone explain to me why the DeMint amendment only appears to apply to the lead limits/certifications/testing and not those related to phthalates? I may be missing something but I don’t understand why his amendment doesn’t address the phthalate standards…

By: CPSIA Update: Stay of Enforcement, But No Real Change | Financial Reflections

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:25:20 +0000

[…] going to arrest you for it. You can get a great description of this on the Overlayered blog here and here. I honestly hope they find a way to change the regulation. You can find a great […]

By: CPSIA Enforcement Stayed for One Year | LivingDice.com

CPSIA Enforcement Stayed for One Year | LivingDice.com — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:42:06 +0000

[…] face serious financial consequences from this legislation. For further information, check out the great posts on overlawyered about the […]

By: Kenneth Ross on CPSIA stay

Kenneth Ross on CPSIA stay — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:05:47 +0000

[…] Liability Prof Blog) has written a three-page summary memo (PDF) on the CPSC enforcement stay announced Friday. Earlier in the week, he notes, the National Association of Manufacturers had petitioned […]

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:30:15 +0000

As opposed to regulation, the Proven Engine of Job Destruction. Gotta love the people thinking of those children whose parents don’t have jobs.

Bob

By: Jennie McKenzie

Jennie McKenzie — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:19:52 +0000

This looks very good. Senator Jim Demint of South Carolina is introducing new legislation early next week: http://doiop.com/CPSIA_Demint .

There are six parts, all very sensible. I love what he says about component testing: “Lead isn’t going to come out of thin air. If the lead’s not in the components, it won’t be in the product.”

The conclusion: “It is my sincere hope that these reforms will ensure that children’s products remain safe and that our small businesses remain afloat. In this time of economic uncertainty it is inexcusable that we are placing small businesses — the proven engine of job creation — in such peril.”

How refreshing to find a politician with common sense! Let’s all give Senator Demint our support.

By: Gleeful Gecko » Blog Archive » Unintended Consequences and Bad Laws

Gleeful Gecko » Blog Archive » Unintended Consequences and Bad Laws — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:46:35 +0000

[…] So the enforcement of the new children’s toy safety law has been put off a year. Good. This was a terrible law and was about to ensure that the only winners were the Chinese, who the law was supposed to protect us from. This was an incredibly poorly written law and was about to have massive effects ranging from banning children from libraries to stopping the sale of handicrafts in America. If you have an email address you probably got a ton of email on this one, I know I did from librarians, from crafters and from toy soldier collectors. The was poorly written and casts a huge net, far beyond any sane limits, now hopefully someone competent will rework it into what it was supposed to be in the first place. I am often annoyed when being emailed about things like this, too often it is someone overreacting, but in this case the more I looked the worse the law looked. As Overlawyered points out, this isn’t over yet but I do hope that everyone that who emailed me keeps the pressure up on Congress to get this one fixed. […]

By: CPSIA stay II

CPSIA stay II — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:32:04 +0000

[…] Yesterday’s extraordinary one-year stay of enforcement on testing/certification by the CPSC was, if nothing else, a tribute to the energy of an extraordinary grass-roots movement that emerged over the past two months and made its voice heard around the country and above all in Congress. It will rightfully be cause for celebration by thousands of businesses whose inventories of books, toys, garments and other childrens’ goods have now suddenly not been rendered valueless and which can continue making selling their wares after Feb. 10, not indeed without legal worries, but at least without being in blatant defiance of the responsible federal agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission. […]

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:21:43 +0000

Andrew_M_Garland: Your satire is an embedded fact of life already. My Irish grandmother didn’t consider anything fit to eat unless and until it was boiled a uniform gray in color. Didn’t matter what: green beans, liver, steak, oatmeal… Alas, my mother inherited that approach, which led to my and my siblings learning to cook defensively.