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Product Liability

Apr. 3, 2001

Dangerous Devices

It is hard to conceive of a case more different than the Supreme Court's last decision on the very same issue in 'Medtronic.'

        By Michael K. Brown and Lisa M. Baird
        
        When the federal government and the states both have conflicting laws on the same issue, one must take precedence. While the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution guarantees that federal law will pre-empt conflicting state law, the Supreme Court occasionally seems troubled displ...

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