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Recent CPSC Lawsuits Could Have Significant Ramifications for Platforms and for Companies Relying on Third Parties for Product...

Over the course of about a week, the CPSC, an agency that rarely litigates, flexed its litigation muscles not once, but twice, recently filing complaints against Amazon and Thyssenkrupp Access Corp., seeking to force both...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Not Even Amazon Can Avoid Being In the Chain of Distribution Under California Strict Products Liability Law

In August of 2020, a California Court of Appeal held that Amazon was subject to strict products liability for each and every product sold on its website. (See Bolger v. Amazon.com LLC (2020), 53 Cal.App.5th 431. You can read...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 2.18.2020 | Top Story: Apple Cuts Revenue Expectations and HSBC Axes Jobs as Coronavirus Infects Business...

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Apple announced that the coronavirus outbreak that’s brought Chinese manufacturing to a near-standstill and continues to spread around the world will affect its quarterly sales expectations.  The news makes Apple “one of the...more

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Amazon Packages Bursting into Open Fires, Jack Frost Nipping at Your Nose…

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On December 26, Marty and Dave McFly were playing video games when, downstairs in the living room, the hoverboard that Marty had received for Christmas ignited. The fire quickly engulfed the Christmas tree and spread...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.02.2019 | Top Story: US Restores Metal Tariffs on Argentina and Brazil

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The White House will again slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Argentina and Brazil in an apparent reaction to “massive devaluation” of  currencies in both South American nations....more

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Amazon Feels the Heat From Hoverboard Fire Claims

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In State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Amazon.com, Inc., No. 3:18CV166-M-P, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 189053 (Oct. 31, 2019), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi considered a Motion for Judgment on...more

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Jobs report Friday again. Which, after February’s dismal numbers, is carrying extra importance today. We’ll be keeping an eye on US manufacturing, among other things. Here’s what to watch....more

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General Motors delivered the harsh news on Monday that it plans to idle five North American factories and cut more than 14,000 jobs in an effort to save costs....more

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Tesla’s hoping that a manufacturing plant in China—the first in the country wholly owned by a foreign manufacturing company—will translate into big sales in the Chinese market. With the Chinese government loath to give up the...more

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We’ve mentioned Uber’s Greyball issues before in passing. But since the authorities are literally making a Federal case out of it, you should probably know more about the details if the software tool that has the...more

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Ways Manufacturers Can Shut Down Unauthorized Resellers

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The internet has become a dominant marketplace for consumer products and services. Historically, high capital costs of warehouse and storefront facilities tended to discourage unauthorized resellers from becoming a...more

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Protecting Your Rights Against Unauthorized Gray Market Sales

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We frequently see companies affected by gray market imports and diverted sales. The gray market is caused by opportunistic importers who purchase a company’s products abroad and import them into the U.S. without...more

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