An Oklahoma-based family-owned pillow-making business is suing the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) after it tried to shut down the company when two infants died after parents ignored explicit product safety warnings.
The lawsuit claims regulatory overreach and seeks to curb the powers of the CPSC, an administrative agency.
The legal complaint (pdf) in Leachco Inc. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, court file 22-cv-232, was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
Jamie Leach and her husband, Clyde, founded Leachco Inc. in 1988 after their then-7-month-old child almost fell out of a highchair in a restaurant. Jamie repurposed her purse strap and safely secured the baby to the chair. Over the following days, Jamie, trained as a registered nurse, experienced a burst of creativity and made a safety wrap out of dental floss, tape, and a kitchen hand towel. This so-called Wiggle Wrap became an instant hit with other parents and sparked the idea for a company focused on childcare products, according to Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a Sacramento, California-based national public interest law firm that is representing the business in the lawsuit….