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· 11/18/1993

Raymond G. O'neal, and Lisa M. O'Neal v. Celanese Corporation, and Hoechst Celanese Corporation

Citations

  • 10 F.3d 249
  • 1993 CCH OSHD 30,272
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 29936
  • 1993 WL 475381

How courts have described this case

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  • stating the sophisticated user doctrine applies “when the supplier shows that it was reasonable to believe that a warning was unnecessary because the intermediary was already well aware of the danger”
  • “The sophisticated user defense is implicated in the situation in which A supplies a chattel to B, B in turn allows C to be exposed to the chattel, C is injured by exposure to the chattel, and C claims that A should be liable to C for A’s failure to warn C of the danger.”

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Judges: Widener, Chapman, MacKenzie, Eastern, Virginia

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