Johnson v. 148 East 39th Street, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating, on an issue other than accrual, that “[t]o hold ... that every sale of regular cigarettes exposes the manufacturer to tort liability would amount to a judicial ban on the product”
• affirming reversal of jury verdict, initially rendered in plaintiffs’ favor, in design defect case because plaintiffs presented no evidence that defendants could feasibly have designed safer version of cigarettes
• affirming reversal of jury verdict, initially rendered in plaintiffsʹ favor, in design defect case because plaintiffs presented no evidence that defendants could feasibly have designed safer version of cigarettes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).