Mokler v. Mokler

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “a manufacturing defect . . . results when a mistake in manufacturing renders a product that is ordinarily safe dangerous so that it causes harm”
• finding that a “a manufacturing defect . . . results when a mistake in manufacturing renders a product that is ordinarily safe dangerous so that it causes harm”
• finding sufficiency of guidance in state caselaw to be determinative of whether a federal court should certify in diversity case
• dismissing design defect strict liability cause of action after applying New York law’s “risk/utility test analysis” whose “purpose . . . is to determine whether the risk of injury might have been reduced or avoided if the manufacturer had used a feasible alternative design”
• “We also hold that Olin was under no legal duty to prevent criminal misuse of its product and therefore affirm the dismissal of the negligence claims.”
• “[I]t may be said that the defendant was negligent, but is not liable because he was under no duty to the plaintiff not to be.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).