Legal Opinion
Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 21, 2006No. Docket 04-0412-CVPublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge POOLER concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.
KATZMANN, Circuit Judge.
This case calls upon us to determine, inter alia, the scope of the preemption provision set forth in Section 360k(a) of the 1976 Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C. §§ 301 et. seq. Specifically, we must decide whether Section 360k(a) preempts common law tort claims regarding medical devices that have entered the market pursuant to the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) rigorous premarket approval (“PMA”) process. The Supreme Court left open this question in…
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