Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 27 Apr 2015
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), filed suit against Michaels…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 3 Mar 2015
At the end of last year, we reported that the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) issued $12.2 million in civil penalties in 2014, more than…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 18 Jun 2014
In May 2014, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rolled out a new monthly progress report for companies executing a product recall. The…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | Global | 29 Apr 2014
This month the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) officially adopted a Protocol to amend the Tokyo Convention on offenses committed on…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 31 Mar 2014
On March 28, 2014, the Ninth Circuit strengthened its Federal Aviation Act (the "Act") preemption jurisprudence, holding that state law claims for…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 28 Jan 2014
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper, 571 U.S. ---, No. 12-315 (2014), holding that immunity…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 6 Jun 2013
For most consumer product companies, in-house counsel and risk managers can never be too careful when it comes to providing warnings or other…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 15 May 2013
Dear Doctor letters were front and center in the just-tried case of Tietz v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., et al., No. 12-L-002715. On Thursday, May 9…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 9 May 2013
Last week the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) obtained an unprecedented ruling when Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Dean Metry granted leave…
Morrison & Foerster LLP | USA | 8 May 2013
It is no news that Section 15(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (the Act) requires immediate reporting to the Consumer Product Safety Commission…