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· 12/19/1980

Maxwell Young v. Up-Right Scaffolds, Inc

Citations

  • 637 F.2d 810
  • 205 U.S. App. D.C. 264
  • 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 11259

How courts have described this case

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

  • difference between two theories in failure to warn case lies not in manufacturer’s duty but in defenses available to it
  • if a defendant was not negligent in labelling a product, product is not unreasonably unsafe
  • a manufacturer is liable for failure to warn “only if it was reasonably foreseeable that the product, as labelled, would cause injury”
  • Restatement adopts the ordinary negligence concept of duty to warn

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Judges: Mikva, Robb, Tamm

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