National Labor Relations Board v. Leviton Mfg. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the failure to comply with an administrative requirement “cannot be the proximate cause of the injury”
• stating that the essential elements of a negligence claim in Virginia are (1) the identification of a legal duty of the defendant to the plaintiff, (2) a breach of that duty, and (3) injury to the plaintiff proximately caused by the breach
• predicting the Virginia Supreme Court would adopt the learned intermediary doctrine
• predicting the Virginia Supreme Court would adopt the learned intermediary doctrine
• applying the doctrine to affirm dismissal of medical products liability action
• negligence per se may only be based on the alleged violation of a legislative enactment that codifies a particular standard of care to be followed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).