Bailey v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that silence in the government’s specifications regarding a particular product feature precludes application of the government contractor defense
• holding that the government contractor defense applies regardless of the label attached to the claim, as long as the three Boyle conditions are satisfied
• denying summary judgment based on government contractor defense where manufacturing defect was alleged
• record did not demonstrate that Air Force specifications for fighter jet addressed metallurgic content of bellows canister
• “[T]he requirements of ‘reasonably precise specifications’ and conformity with them refer to the particular feature of the product claimed to be defective.”
• “[T]he requirements of ‘reasonably precise specifications’ and conformity with them refer to the particular feature of the product claimed to be defective.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).