Isaacson v. Dow Chemical Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “the government contractor defense protects a government contractor from liability under state tort law ....”
• finding that “the government contractor defense protects a government contractor from liability under state tort law . . . .”
• stating that federal courts must resolve “whether the challenged act was outside the scope of Defendants’ official duties, or whether it was specifically directed by the federal Government”
• stating that federal courts must resolve “whether the challenged act was outside the scope of Defendants’ official duties, or whether it was specifically directed by the federal Government”
• finding that non-governmental corporate defendants demonstrated that “the acts for which they are being sued — here, the production of dioxin in Agent Orange — occurred because of what they were asked to do by the Government”
• distinguishing between entities that “contracted with the Government” and entities that were “simply regulated by federal law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).