Ronald E. Nielsen v. George Diamond Vogel Paint Company, and United Coatings, Inc.

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• holding that the defense does not broadly immunize contractors from their own negligence and applying state tort law in the absence of a significant conflict with federal policy
• \Courts often absolve contractors from liability when following government specifications ... because of their reluctance to impose liability ... when the government itself would be immune from suit.\
• \Courts often absolve contractors from liability when following government specifications ... because of their reluctance to impose liability ... when the government itself would be immune from suit.\
• the court declined to extend the government contractor defense to a situation that dealt with “a civilian worker injured in the course of a civilian job involving a product designed to further civilian, rather than military, objectives

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