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Supreme Court· 10/13/1992

Virtual Maintenance, Inc. v. Prime Computer, Inc.

Citations

  • 506 U.S. 910
  • 121 L. Ed. 2d 235
  • 61 U.S.L.W. 3284
  • 113 S. Ct. 314
  • 1992 U.S. LEXIS 6401

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  • the burden is on the defendants to show that state tort claims based on failure to warn are preempted by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Ro-denticide Act
  • “A tying arrangement clearly exists here because the large price differential between the software support alone and the software/hardware maintenance package induces all rational buyers of Prime’s software support to accept its hardware maintenance”
  • vacating and remanding Arkansas-Platte & Gulf Partnership I
  • vacating and remanding Arkansas-Platte & Gulf Partnership I

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