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· 7/12/1991

Wilhelm Winter Cynthia Zheng v. G.P. Putnam's Sons

Citations

  • 938 F.2d 1033
  • 19 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1053
  • 91 Daily Journal DAR 8421
  • 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 14654
  • 1991 WL 124588

How courts have described this case

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

  • declining “to expand products liability law to embrace the ideas and expression in a book”
  • plaintiffs became ill after eating poisonous mushrooms labeled as edible in book and asserted defective product claims against the publisher
  • plaintiffs became ill after eating poisonous mushrooms labeled as edible in book and asserted defective product claims against the publisher

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Judges: Sneed, Tang, Thompson

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