Comments on: CPSIA: “Books, left out at the curb…” https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-books-left-out-at-the-curb/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:12:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: CPSIA chronicles, February 24 https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-books-left-out-at-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-41032 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:49:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9041#comment-41032 […] thrift store business can’t bring themselves to leave perfectly good children’s books out on the curb, and instead tuck them into storage for the time being or look the other way while an employee […]

]]> By: CPSIA and vintage books, cont’d: slicing the past https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-books-left-out-at-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-40437 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:31:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9041#comment-40437 […] owner’s removal of six boxes of older children’s books from her shelves, mentioned here, also started an Etsy thread. Another poster at the same location had an idea for a national […]

]]> By: Susanna https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-books-left-out-at-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-40385 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:42:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9041#comment-40385 If there was ever a time to engage in civil disobedience, it is now. I never dreamed that my liberties and freedoms would be so eroded that I am actually contemplating my peaceful resistance to the confiscation of children’s books. We are a free people, we do not have to comply with this law! It is outrageous for our government to assert that they have jurisdiction over books! Resist it people! . Old books should be treasured, not discarded!

]]> By: Defending People » Blawg Review #199 https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-books-left-out-at-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-40352 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:49:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9041#comment-40352 […] I was a child I loved to read. So Walter Olson’s (Overlawyered) reports on the CPSIA’s effect on pre-1985 children’s books were heartbreaking to […]

]]> By: BG https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-books-left-out-at-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-40340 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:37:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9041#comment-40340 Our family stopped by Half Price Books today (Sunday 2/15) and I found one book in the children’s section printed prior to 1985. The cashiers confessed to me that they had thrown out 30 boxes of stuff, mostly toys, due to CPSIA. I suggested they update their recycled bag with the anti-censorship theme to include a dig at the CPSC since they managed censorship without violating the first amendment. I got a chuckle. The two pre-1985 books I bought were in the “collectors” area. Once home, I handed Tom Swift to my 12 yr old and instructed him not to eat it.

]]> By: Melvin H. https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-books-left-out-at-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-40306 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:15:15 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9041#comment-40306 I always thought that the Americans with Disabilities Act was the worst piece of legislation written (maybe with Title IX a VERY close second); now I am convinced that the CPSIA IS the worst.

I did ask this on another thread here: why couldn’t someone sue to stop the law from being implemented, on the grounds that it is unconstitutional due to CPSIA having several laws/rules/enforcement that would seem to me to be ex post facto??

]]> By: M https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-books-left-out-at-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-40280 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:59:36 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9041#comment-40280 National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance http://www.thencbla.org/ might be interested in this

]]> By: Doug https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/cpsia-books-left-out-at-the-curb/comment-page-1/#comment-40273 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:52:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9041#comment-40273 Local public library has a dumpster in the parking lot that appeared in the last week. When I asked about the dumpster, the guy at the check out counter said they were just clean out some old books and stuff from the basement. Maybe, but it is too close in time.

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