Hughes v. Boston Scientific Corp.

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to determine the extent to which Appellant Jan Hughes’s state tort claims seeking recovery for injuries allegedly caused by a medical device manufactured by Appellee Boston Scientific Corporation (“Boston Scientific”) are preempted by the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 (“MDA”), 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq., to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act of 1938 (“FDCA”), 52 Stat. 1040. The district court granted Boston Scientific’s motion for summary judgment, holding that all of Hughes’s claims are preempted. Hughes now appeals that ruling,…