Wednesday 16 April 2014

U.S. consumer groups win unsealing of lawsuit over infant death

(Reuters) - In a victory for consumers, a federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the unsealing of litigation about a product whose use led to the death of an infant. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a lower court judge was wrong to let the product's manufacturer, known in court papers as Company Doe, keep the case brought by the Consumer Product Safety Commission under wraps. The case was the first legal challenge to the CPSC's implementation of a public database for reports of unsafe products, which had been mandated under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. Three consumer advocacy groups - the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union and Public Citizen - sought to unseal records of the case and the identity of the manufacturer, but U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams in Greenbelt, Maryland allowed the case to be tried pseudonymously. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

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