Kelley Drye & Warren LLP | USA | 4 Aug 2011
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC” or “Commission”) is an independent federal regulatory agency created to protect consumers against unreasonable risk of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction.
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP | USA | 29 Jul 2011
On June 23, 2011, the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing holding that FDA regulations governing generic drug products directly conflict with and preempt state laws that would require generic drug manufacturers to modify the FDA-authorized labeling for their products to provide "adequate warnings" as defined by state law.
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP | USA | 28 Jun 2011
On June 20, 2011, the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act ("CCPSA") became effective, imposing incident reporting, testing, recall, and recordkeeping requirements on entities that manufacture, import, or sell consumer products in Canada.
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP | USA | 4 Apr 2011
This is the third in a series of articles providing our thoughts on how to reduce costs and bring some rationality to e-discovery.
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP | Australia, Canada | 5 Jan 2011
Canada and Australia have recently passed new statutes containing consumer product safety and recall requirements that will become effective in 2011.
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP | USA | 3 Jan 2011
Corporations face challenging and expensive problems identifying, preserving, collecting, reviewing and producing electronically stored information in civil litigation ("e-discovery").
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP | USA | 11 Jun 2010
On May 24, 2010, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC" or "Commission") published a notice of proposed rulemaking to establish a publicly-available consumer product safety information database in compliance with requirements set forth in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act ("CPSIA").