Litigation
Oct. 1, 2015
Chew over raw material design defects
A recent decision provides guidance on whether a raw material supplier can be held liable for design defect claims in California. By Marilyn A. Moberg, Pavel Ekmekchyan and Veronica Kuiumdjian
On Sept. 1, the 1st District Court of Appeal reversed a trial court's summary judgment
ruling in favor of United States Steel Corporation in an acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
suit. In Johnson v. United States Steel Corp., 2015 DJDAR 10201, the Court of Appeal found evidence was insufficient to support
a summary judgment for U.S. Steel, and th...
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