Keith A. Knoth v. Smith & Nephew Richards, A/K/A Smith & Nephew North America

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, Keith Knoth, appeals from the judgment in this products-liability case after the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant, Smith & Nephew Richards. The defendant is a manufacturer of surgical and orthopedic devices. The plaintiff argues ten points of error by the District Court. 1 Many of these arguments relate to his contention that the defendant violated the Medical Devices Amendments (MDA) to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act, 21 U.S.C. § 360, and that such a violation was either negligence per se, evidence of negligence, or relevant…