· 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
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- 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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