{"id":53,"date":"2007-07-20T21:42:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T04:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/2007\/07\/20\/wsj-laments-the-lack-of-product-liability-laws\/"},"modified":"2007-07-20T21:42:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T04:42:58","slug":"wsj-laments-the-lack-of-product-liability-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/20\/wsj-laments-the-lack-of-product-liability-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Laments the Lack of Product Liability Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Wall Street Journal<\/strong>: <em>China Product Scare Hits Home, Too.<\/em>  China is still at the early stages of developing the type of product-liability and product-recall system that is common in many Western countries, a system that leaves little recourse against companies that flout regulations that are rarely enforced.  Product-liability lawsuits, common in the U.S., are rare in China&#8217;s legal system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, if some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/12\/20041215-11.html\">politicians<\/a> have their way, product liability lawsuits will be rare in the U.S. legal system as well.  After all, President Bush said,  &#8220;The cost of lawsuits, relative to countries that we compete against, are high.&#8221; [Actually, he should have said the costs\u2014plural\u2014are high, but who am I to pick on the President&#8217;s grammar.] Now, the Census tells us that our second largest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/foreign-trade\/top\/dst\/current\/balance.html\">trading partner<\/a> is China.  So, either we have to gravitate toward their model or they have to move to ours.  Which will it be? Who wants diethylene glycol in fresh mint with tartar control?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal: China Product Scare Hits Home, Too. China is still at the early stages of developing the type of product-liability and product-recall system that is common in many Western countries, a system that leaves little recourse against companies that flout regulations that are rarely enforced. Product-liability lawsuits, common in the U.S., are rare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[45,145],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}