United States v. an Article of Device Consisting of 1,217 Cardboard Boxes

OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

This action was filed on November 20, 1984 against a prosthetic shoulder ligament device, manufactured by Meadox Medicals, Inc., and distributed by Stryker Corporation. The device is used in the surgical repair of third-degree, and sometimes second-degree, acromioclavicular separation, a severe dislocation of the joint which stabilizes the clavical (collarbone) and scapula (shoulder blade). See, 1A Gordy & Gray, Attorneys’ Textbook of Medicine U 5.40-5.- 49 (1984). Such injuries often result from a fall with an outstretched arm, a force from above striking the…