Johnson v. American Standard, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a paper mill operator was sophisticated as to the dangers posed by unguarded rotating steel cylinders on a rewinding machine
• rejecting the argument that a supplier’s duty to warn “should turn on the individual plaintiffs actual understanding of the risk”
• “[S]ophisticated users need not be warned about dangers of which they are already aware or should be aware.”
• failure to warn not the legal cause where court presumes sophisticated users know the product’s dangers
• “[The sophisticated user] defense applies equally to strict liability and negligent failure to warn cases.”
• record contained evidence about what plaintiffs profession “could reasonably be expected to know”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).