Liberty Balls! Can you believe the CPSC is still going after these guys?!?

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2009 Buckyballs® Are The World’s Hottest Adult Desktoy

REMEMBER BUCKYBALLS®? We do. We were part of the team from Maxfield & Oberton, the company that created Buckyballs® (and Buckycubes™.) In July 2012, after millions of units sold to adults and years of closely and carefully working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company was sued by the CPSC to force a full product recall.


2012 A Company Is Driven Out of Business by Regulators

In response, the company launched its “Save Our Balls” campaign to try to keep the business alive. Despite overwhelming public support, the company was spending more in legal bills than it could earn. The company dissolved in December 2012, sending us into unemployment, sadness, and sweatpants.

To this day, the products have never been proven to be defective and remain legal to sell today. In fact, several companies currently market identical products.

But the CPSC decided to go after only one guy: the former CEO of Maxfield & Oberton and outspoken face of “Save Our Balls”, Craig Zucker.


2013 The Government Targets an Individual

In February 2013, the CPSC took an egregious jaw-dropping unprecedented action, filing suit to hold Zucker personally liable for the costs of a product recall, which they estimate at $57 million (more than the company ever even did in sales!).

The move was a vindictive astounding departure from the cherished American principle of “limited liability,” which protects responsible, law-abiding company officers from being unjustly sued.