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If It Is Broken, You Should Not Fix It: The Threat Fair Repair Legislation Poses To The Manufacturer And The Consumer, Marissa Macaneney
If It Is Broken, You Should Not Fix It: The Threat Fair Repair Legislation Poses To The Manufacturer And The Consumer, Marissa Macaneney
St. John's Law Review
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This Note argues that fair repair legislation is not fair for manufacturers, and suggests that legislators look to a solution that has proved workable in an analogous context in the automobile repair industry. Part I outlines the history of the electronic device repair market and discusses the proposed state legislation. It concludes that federal copyright law is insufficient, current state proposals are flawed, and that a different solution is necessary. Part II will discuss alternate solutions in the automobile industry, legislation tailored to the agriculture industry, and recent concessions by a well-known manufacturer. Part III will propose a standardized …
Autonomous Weapons And Accountability: Seeking Solutions In The Law Of War, Kelly Cass
Autonomous Weapons And Accountability: Seeking Solutions In The Law Of War, Kelly Cass
Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
Autonomous weapons are increasingly used by militaries around the world. Unlike conventional unmanned weapons such as drones, autonomous weapons involve a machine deciding whether to deploy lethal force. Yet, because a machine cannot have the requisite mental state to commit a war crime, the legal scrutiny falls onto the decision to deploy an autonomous weapon. This Article focuses on the dual questions arising from that decision: how to regulate autonomous weapon use and who should be held criminally liable for an autonomous weapon’s actions. Regarding the first issue, this Article concludes that regulations expressly limiting autonomous weapon use to non-human …
Product Liability Law In Japan: An Introduction To A Developing Area Of Law, Younghee Jin Ottley, Bruce L. Ottley
Product Liability Law In Japan: An Introduction To A Developing Area Of Law, Younghee Jin Ottley, Bruce L. Ottley
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Get The Lead Out: A New Approach For Regulating The U.S. Toy Market In A Globalized World, Gabriel Allen
Get The Lead Out: A New Approach For Regulating The U.S. Toy Market In A Globalized World, Gabriel Allen
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Vaccines And The Law, Michael Sanzo Ph.D.
Vaccines And The Law, Michael Sanzo Ph.D.
Pepperdine Law Review
The last twenty years have seen a sea-change in the area of proving causation in the toxic tort setting, with courts demanding stronger, scientifically tested evidence. At the same time, a closely related debate has been raging about separating cause from coincidence under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act compensation program for injuries that might have been the result of vaccinations. The Vaccine Act created a no-fault compensation fund financed by a tax on childhood vaccines to address harms resulting from those vaccines. Unfortunately, Congress gave little direction with regard to the level of causal certainty that would be required …
Lead Paint Public Entity Lawsuits: Has The Broad Stroke Of Tobacco And Firearms Litigation Painted A Troubling Picture For Lead Paint Manufacturers?, Amber E. Dean
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Design Defects, David G. Owen
Design Defects, David G. Owen
Missouri Law Review
This Article examines the tests of design defectiveness developed by the courts, particularly in applying the doctrine of Restatement (Second) of Torts § 402A. The Third Restatement's definition of design defectiveness is examined in Part VIII.
Assumption Of Responsibility And Loss Of Bargain In Tort Law, Russell Brown
Assumption Of Responsibility And Loss Of Bargain In Tort Law, Russell Brown
Dalhousie Law Journal
The author seeks to justify recovery in negligence law for loss of bargain, which is the pure economic loss incurred by a subsequent purchaser of a defective product or building structure in seeking to repair the defect. The difficulty is that the purchaser is not in a relationship of contractual privity with the manufacturer The conflicting approaches in Anglo-American tort law reveal confusion, owing to loss of bargain's dual implication of the law governing pure economic loss and products liability. These difficulties are overcome by drawing from Hedley Byrne's requirements of a defendant's assumption of responsibility and a plaintiff's reasonable …
The Psychological Manipulation Of The Consumer-Patient Population Through Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising., Elizabeth C. Melby
The Psychological Manipulation Of The Consumer-Patient Population Through Direct-To-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising., Elizabeth C. Melby
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Drug direct-to-consumer advertisements manipulates the public through the manufacturer’s marketing practices. The goal of pharmaceutical companies is to create consumer demand for their products, and they achieve this goal by showing advertisements that portray their products as life-enhancing. This leads to an exponential increase in demand for and spending on these pharmaceutical drugs. This increased promotion of direct-to-consumer advertising affects the physician-patient relationship, while drug companies face little, if any, liability. Drug companies expend significant efforts to obtain patents to keep their products competitive on the market, and to prevent customers from switching to an inexpensive generic drug. The author …
Negligence, Strict Liability, And Manufacturer Failure To Warn: On Fitting Round Pegs In A Square Hole, Denis W. Boivin
Negligence, Strict Liability, And Manufacturer Failure To Warn: On Fitting Round Pegs In A Square Hole, Denis W. Boivin
Dalhousie Law Journal
In the common law provinces of Canada, it is generally recognized that a plaintiff in a products liability action in tort must prove four elements in order to succeed: first, that the product contains a defect traceable either to its manufacture, to its design, orto its warnings or instructions; second, that the defendant manufacturer was somehow negligent in connection with this defect; third, that there is some causal connection between the manufacturer's negligence and the damages suffered by the plaintiff; and fourth, that these damages are such as to give rise to compensation in law. In the United States, in …
Products Liability And The Chemical Manufacturer: Limitations On The Duty To Warn, Richard O. Faulk
Products Liability And The Chemical Manufacturer: Limitations On The Duty To Warn, Richard O. Faulk
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Manufacturer's Liability To Victims Of Handgum Crime: A Common-Law Approach, H. Todd Iveson
Manufacturer's Liability To Victims Of Handgum Crime: A Common-Law Approach, H. Todd Iveson
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Emotional Distress In Products Liability: Distinguishing Users From Bystanders, Linda Trummer-Napolitano
Emotional Distress In Products Liability: Distinguishing Users From Bystanders, Linda Trummer-Napolitano
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Differing Views On Repayments By Manufacturers To Dealers For Expenses Required By The Manufacturers As Price Readjustments Under I.R.C. Section 6416(B)(1)--General Motors Corp. V. United States; Waterman-Bic Pen Corp. V. United States, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The Internal Revenue Code of 1954 exacts a manufacturer's excise tax based on sales price; if the sales price is readjusted by means of a "bona fide discount, rebate or allowance," the manufacturer is entitled to a tax credit under section 6416(b) (1). In two recent cases, General Motors Corp. v. United States, and Waterman-Bic Pen Corp. v. United States, manufacturers have sought tax credits, claiming that their reimbursements to dealers for expenses which the manufacturers had required the dealers to incur subsequent to the time of sale constituted price readjustments. The Court of Claims in General Motors …
The Judicial Treatment Of The Automobile Dealer Franchise Act, J. Patrick Martin
The Judicial Treatment Of The Automobile Dealer Franchise Act, J. Patrick Martin
Michigan Law Review
The representatives of the auto industry initially viewed the act with a jaundiced eye and warned that this special class legislation6 would radically change the existing case law by allowing the dealer to win where formerly he would have lost. However, the court decisions under the act have not borne out such dire predictions. This discussion will examine what has, in fact, been the judicial interpretation and treatment of the act.
Federal Antitrust Law-Sherman Act-Resale Restrictions In Agreements Between Manufacturer And Distributors, S. Anthony Benton
Federal Antitrust Law-Sherman Act-Resale Restrictions In Agreements Between Manufacturer And Distributors, S. Anthony Benton
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, a manufacturer of heavy trucks, entered into agreements with its wholesale distributors and retail dealers whereby the distributors and dealers agreed to resell defendant's trucks at prices fixed by defendant. They also agreed to restrict their sales to customers located within the territories designated by defendant and to allow defendant to deal directly with all government accounts. The Justice Department, charging violation of sections I and 3 of the Sherman Act, brought a civil suit to enjoin defendant from continuing or renewing any of the aforementioned arrangements. On plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, held, motion granted. Vertical agreements …
Viewpoint Of The Consumer, Catherine H. Hotes
Viewpoint Of The Consumer, Catherine H. Hotes
Cleveland State Law Review
When Adam Smith described his self-regulating economy in the 1770's, he assumed that its motive power would be provided by the interplay of mutual demands and concessions between economic entities, and that such interplay would result in a balance of power. Since that time, the growth of huge corporations that employ modern technology, complex manufacturing processes, mass production, and mass advertising, into "clusters of private collectivisms" has substantially upset any such supposed balance of power.
A Symposium On The Fair Trade Laws: Part Iii: Enforcement And Procedure
A Symposium On The Fair Trade Laws: Part Iii: Enforcement And Procedure
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Regulation Of Business - Refusals To Deal - Use To Effectuate Resale Price Maintenance, Raymond J. Dittrich, Jr. S.Ed.
Regulation Of Business - Refusals To Deal - Use To Effectuate Resale Price Maintenance, Raymond J. Dittrich, Jr. S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
This comment will examine the legal questions arising from a manufacturer's exercise of his right to maintain resale prices by refusing to deal with price cutters in an attempt to determine whether this exists only as an abstract right, or whether it can be translated into legally effective business practices.
Negligence - Duty Of Care - Manufacturer's Duty To Warn Of Obvious Dangers, George R. Haydon Jr.
Negligence - Duty Of Care - Manufacturer's Duty To Warn Of Obvious Dangers, George R. Haydon Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff purchased a "Lithe-Line" exerciser, a rubber rope forty inches long with a loop on each end, manufactured by defendant Helena Rubenstein, Inc. With the exerciser plaintiff received a leaflet of instructions stating that "anybody" could reduce with it, and containing sketches and descriptions of eight exercises. While plaintiff was lying on the floor with the rope under her feet doing one of the exercises, the rope slipped off her feet and snapped back, hitting her in the eye and causing partial loss of vision. She sued the manufacturer for negligence, alleging that the exerciser was inherently dangerous when used …
Product Warranty Liability, Lee E. Skeel
Product Warranty Liability, Lee E. Skeel
Cleveland State Law Review
Much has been said about the liability of a manufacturer to a sub-purchaser for injuries caused by his products. Actions against manufacturers, if based on the theory of negligence, offer obvious difficulties of proof. Actions based on implied or even express warranties often are defeated by lack of contract privity. There is however, a widespread misconception of the true nature of warranty. This misconception must result in unjust decisions in some cases. It therefore is desirable that the true nature of warranty be analyzed. Such analysis may disclose the proper relation of an express or implied warranty to the injury …
Corporations--Merger--Statutory Meaning Of "Same Or Similar Purposes", Ray A. Mcintyre
Corporations--Merger--Statutory Meaning Of "Same Or Similar Purposes", Ray A. Mcintyre
Michigan Law Review
A merger agreement was drawn up and approved by the necessary statutory majority of shareholders for the merging of a corporation engaged in making and selling razor blades into one which was making and selling pens and pencils; but the minority stockholders of the razor blade company sought a preliminary injunction against the merger on the grounds that it was prohibited by the statute which confines the authority to merge to those corporations which are organized ". . . for the purpose of carrying on any kind of business of the same or similar nature . . . . " …
Warranty Of Food-Liability Of The Manufacturer To The Consumer
Warranty Of Food-Liability Of The Manufacturer To The Consumer
Indiana Law Journal
Recent Case Notes: Sales
Sales-Liability Of A Manufacturer For Misrepresentations To Sub-Purchaser
Sales-Liability Of A Manufacturer For Misrepresentations To Sub-Purchaser
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Are Automobiles Inherently Dangerous To The Purchaser?, Cuthbert W. Pound
Are Automobiles Inherently Dangerous To The Purchaser?, Cuthbert W. Pound
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.