New case: Family-owned fireworks company sues Consumer Product Safety Commission

The Consumer Product Safety Commission sparked a legal battle with a Kansas-based fireworks company by threatening it with $15 million in civil penalties for having fireworks with a “bang” sound instead of a “pop” sound. Now the agency claims it’s immune from a court challenge.

Government agencies’ regulatory gamesmanship to avoid court is unlawful, so the company is fighting back.

George Will: The Supreme Court blew a chance to fix its second-worst decision ever

“The Supreme Court on Oct. 2 spurned an opportunity to correct the second-worst mistake in its 233-year history,” George Will declares in his Washington Post column this week.

“If it had agreed to hear Ursula Newel-Davis’s case, and had then decided it correctly, the Court would have scrubbed a 150-year-old stain from its reputation.”

Stossel TV: California’s Green Dream—coming to YOUR state?!

Pennsylvania regulators are forcing truck drivers to buy trucks outside Pennsylvania. The crazy part: They didn’t even make the rules; they were made by California.

This week on Stossel TV, John Stossel features Brian Wanner and his truck company’s fight against Pennsylvania’s outsourcing of its regulatory power to California.

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