Legal Opinion
Worm v. American Cyanamid Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 15, 1993No. 93-1003PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
In Worm v. American Cyanamid Co., 970 F.2d 1301 (4th Cir.1992) (Worm I), we held that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), 7 U.S.C. § 136 et seq., does not, expressly or by implication, preempt the field of pesticide regulation or a more narrowly defined field, but it does preempt conflicting state law causes of action that impose a duty to provide a warning in addition to or different from federally established labeling requirements. We remanded this case to the district court for individual consideration of the plaintiffs’ state law…
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