Legal Opinion
In Re" Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 21, 1984No. MDL 381PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Introduction..........................693
A. Federal law — for jurisdictional purposes; for substantive purposes; for eviden-tiary and procedural purposes; and as a model for the states to incorporate in their own law..................... 694
B. State law......................... 695
C. National consensus law.............. 696
II. Claims of Defendants as Misunderstanding of Posture of Case....................... 697
III. Conflicts of Law Rules.................. 699
A. Restatement (Second) .............. 700
1. Product liability law............. 701
2. Government contract defense…
2Cases cited75 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Franchise Tax Bd. of Cal. v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Michigan v. LongSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Van Dusen v. BarrackSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by42 opinions
- In Re General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation. Jack French, Robert M. West, Charles E. Merritt, Gary Blades, Dawn and Tracey Best, Gary and Jackie Barnes, Betty Marteny, John and Mary Southands, Edmund Berning, Dale W. Plummer, Edmund and Anneta Casey, John and Connie Yonki, Carl and Kathryn Corona, Dallas and Patricia Nelson, Mynard and Mildred Duncan, Kirby L. Stegman, Dewayne Anderson, Morris and Barbara Betzold, in No. 94-1064. Rudolph Jenkins, William D. Cunningham, Mather Johnson, Forrest Charles Ginn, Buren William Jones and Martin D. Parkman, in No. 94-1194. Parish of Jefferson, in No. 94-1195. The State of New York, in No. 94-1198. Elton Wilson, Individually, and Frank I. Owen, Individually and on Behalf of the Residents of the State of Alabama, in No. 94-1202. City of New York, in No. 94-1203. Betty Youngs, Barbara Phillips, Margaret Engel, Larry Swope, Robbin Maxwell and Center for Auto Safety, in No. 94-1207. Betty Youngs, Barbara Phillips, Margaret Engel, Larry Swope, Robbin Maxwell and Center for Auto Safety, in No. 94-1208. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, in No. 94-1219Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1995
- In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation Mdl No. 381Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1987
- In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability LitigationDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1984
- In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability LitigationDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1985
- Carolco Pictures Inc. v. SirotaDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1988
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