15 U.S.C. § 2057
Section 2057 · Banned hazardous products
This is the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. (1980)
Most recently applied in American Apparel & Footwear Association, Inc. v. Dave Baden (July 2024)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Whenever the Commission finds that—
(1) a consumer product is being, or will be, distributed in commerce and such consumer product presents an unreasonable risk of injury; and
(2) no feasible consumer product safety standard under this chapter would adequately protect the public from the unreasonable risk of injury associated with such product,
the Commission may, in accordance with section 2058 of this title, promulgate a rule declaring such product a banned hazardous product.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1981—Pub. L. 97 35 substituted “may, in accordance with” for “may propose and, in accordance with”.
Effective Date of 1981 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 97 35 applicable with respect to regulations under this chapter and chapters 25 and 30 of this title for which notices of proposed rulemaking are issued after Aug. 14, 1981, see section 1215 of Pub. L. 97 35, set out as a note under section 2052 of this title.