Legal Opinion
Anguiano v. EI DuPont De Nemours and Co., Inc.
District Court, D. Arizona
Decided December 3, 1992No. CIV 92-298 TUC RMBPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
BILBY, District Judge.
Twenty-two plaintiffs, each of whom had a temporomandibular joint (TMJ) made of Proplast implanted into his or her jaw between 1978 and 1986, sued DuPont, manufacturer of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) 1 , on negligence and strict liability claims. PTFE was used by Vitek, Inc. (Vitek) to manufacture Proplast, which was then fabricated into the patented prosthesis that was implanted into the jaw of each plaintiff. The prostheses were implanted by oral surgeons. Plaintiffs alleged that the protheses injured them and that PTFE was the specific ingredient in the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- United States v. Diebold, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Markowitz v. Arizona Parks BoardArizona Supreme Court · 1985
- Ybarra v. Reno Thunderbird Mobile Home VillageCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
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