Conley v. Boyle Drug Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that some DES plaintiffs had been able to identify the manufacturer of the injury-causing DES
• explaining that the market-share theory of liability “may not be used in conjunction with allegations of fraud, breach of warranty or strict liability”
• stating that, even in a DES case, when the plaintiff has the ability to identify the manufacturer that produced the injury-causing product there is no reason to deviate from traditional tort remedies
• stating, without further discussion, that it agreed with lower court's analysis and rejection of concert of action liability
• “This Court has consistently held that [long-arm statutes] [cannot] be applied retroactively to allow service under [their] provisions as to an alleged wrongful act committed prior to the enactment of the statute.”
• “This Court has consistently held that [long-arm statutes] [cannot] be applied retroactively to allow service under [their] provisions as to an alleged wrongful act committed prior to the enactment of the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).