Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 23 Jan 2017
Producers are among those invited to provide input for an evaluation of the European law on consumer claims for defective products. Interested…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | European Union | 25 Oct 2016
The European Commission has announced an ‘evaluation and fitness check’ of Directive 85/374/EEC which provides for the strict liability of producers…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 20 Nov 2014
The parents of a 3-year-old girl who was allegedly hospitalized after swallowing 37 high-power magnets from a "Buckyballs®" adult desktop toy set…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 20 Nov 2014
In a per curiam ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has summarily reversed the Fifth Circuit's dismissal of claims filed by Mississippi police…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 20 Nov 2014
Eric Segall, who authored Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court Is not a Court and Its Justices are Not Judges," continues to press his point in the…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 20 Nov 2014
"I have been critical of [Sixth Circuit] Judge [Jeffrey] Sutton for creating a Circuit split on the SSM [single-sex marriage] cases. Specifically, I…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 20 Nov 2014
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that neither the state-action provision nor the local-controversy exception to the Class Action…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 20 Nov 2014
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to address the potential "unreasonable risk of injury…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 20 Nov 2014
“Beginning with a simple question—what can one say about the Supreme Court’s on-again/off-again relationship with lower court precedent—Bruhl finds a…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 20 Nov 2014
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has urged an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) to deny the motion to dismiss filed by Zen Magnets…