Legal Opinion
Weiland v. Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc.
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided December 2, 1999No. 86903Published
1Opinion of the Court 1
Docket No. 86903–Agenda 29–September 1999.
HAROLD WEILAND, Appellant, v. TELECTRONICS PACING SYSTEMS, INC., Appellee.
Opinion filed December 2, 1999.
2Opinion of the Court · HeipleJustice Heiple
The issue in this case is whether section 360k of the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 (MDA) (21 U.S.C. §360k (1994)) to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. §301 et seq. (1994)) preempts plaintiff’s state common law claims for breach of warranty and defective design and construction against Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc. (TPSI), the distributor of two allegedly defective pacemakers. The circuit court of Cook County held that…
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