product-liability

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-436 Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft v. Blanca Hernandez, et al. California 2025-10-09 Denied due-process foreign-manufacturer independent-distributor personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer …
25-349 Audi AG v. L. W., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem Jared Furze, et al. California 2025-09-24 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) due-process foreign-manufacturer personal-jurisdiction product-liability specific-jurisdiction stream-of-commerce Whether a state court violates due process by exercising specific personal jurisdiction over a product-liability claim against a foreign manufacturer …
24-1222 Courtney Richmond v. Nolan Wiese, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied Response Waived claim-adjudication copyright-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion product-liability tort-claims Whether federal courts may decline to adjudicate federal tort and product liability claims, and whether a federal court may dismiss copyright claims w…
24-1098 Monsanto Company v. Larry Johnson, et al. Oregon 2025-04-22 Pending Relisted (3) epa-regulation failure-to-warn fifra-preemption product-liability state-law warning-requirements Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be…
24-1097 Monsanto Company, a Foreign Corporation v. Nancy C. Salas Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-22 Pending Relisted (3) epa-regulation failure-to-warn fifra-preemption product-liability state-law warning-requirements Whether FIFRA preempts a state-law failure-to-warn claim where EPA has repeatedly concluded that the warning is not required and the warning cannot be…
24-838 Sol M. Leiner v. Dow, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-provisions federal-court jurisdiction product-liability supreme-court-review Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in dismissing the case involving product liability claims against Dow Defendants and jurisdiction over federal versus …
24A720 Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation v. Doris Albrecht, et al. Third Circuit 2025-01-22 Presumed Complete drug-labeling failure-to-warn federal-regulations pharmaceutical-liability preemption product-liability Whether federal preemption principles under the Wyeth v. Levine framework preclude state law failure-to-warn claims against pharmaceutical manufacture…
24-6255 Taiming Zhang v. Apple, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-violations consumer-protection due-process product-liability racial-discrimination Whether Apple has committed systematic fraud, racial targeting, and constitutional violations through defective product design and judicial misconduct
23-1320 GlaxoSmithKline, LLC, et al. v. Superior Court of California, Alameda County California 2024-06-18 Denied Amici (1) can the consumer's home state assert specific per brand-name-manufacturer due-process generic-drug generic-drugs innovator-liability personal-jurisdiction preemption product-liability specific-jurisdiction warning-label-liability When a plaintiff alleges injury from the consumption of a generic drug
23-1305 Jade Schiewe, et al. v. Cessna Aircraft Company Oklahoma 2024-06-13 Denied aircraft-manufacturer-liability aviation-law general-aviation general-aviation-revitalization-act maintenance-manual manufacturer-liability negligence product-liability statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether a maintenance manual is part of an aircraft under GARA
23-5963 John Roberts v. Jason Hollar, Chief Executive Officer of Cardinal Health, et al. Ohio 2023-11-06 Denied IFP bodily-integrity chips civil-rights consumer-protection due-process illegal-search illegal-seizure legal-claim manufacturing-defect privacy product-liability Whether the petitioner has standing to challenge the alleged involuntary implantation of RFID chips
23-445 Christy Williams v. American Honda Motor Company, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied 14th-amendment 7th-amendment civil-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment jury-trial product-liability seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether Petitioner has been deprived of the right of trial by jury as protected by the Seventh Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment
22-641 Daimler Trucks North America LLC v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. California 2023-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process forum-activities forum-contacts non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction product-liability residency specific-jurisdiction territorial-limits Whether specific personal jurisdiction is limited to circumstances where a nonresident serves a market for a product in the forum and the product caus…
21-7049 Arthur R. Holloway, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process product-liability standing takings Whether the FEA's decision to recall a model of car violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
21-801 Barry McCabe v. Fairfax County, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2021-11-30 Denied civil-rights contract-clause contracting due-process iqbal-twombly product-liability sovereign-immunity tort-claims uniform-commercial-code Do animal 'adoption' laws conflict with the Constitution's Contract Clause and the general principles of contracting?
20-1572 Ramon D. Johnson, II v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) brand-name-liability brand-name-manufacturer FDA-approval generic-drug generic-drug-liability label-defect leave-to-amend preemption product-liability state-law-claims texas-presumption-of-no-liability unapproved-indication Whether a brand name drug manufacturer can be held liable for the defective label of a generic drug product
20-955 Delva Newhouse, Administratrix of the Estate of William Perry Newhouse, III v. Ethicon, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights due-process federal-law fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-discretion medical-device product-liability rule-60 summary-judgment Did the U.S. District Court and U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals justices abuse their discretion, create manifest injustice, substantially err, pr…
20-6178 William Scott Davis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights criminal-liability design-standard due-process evidence-tampering family-rights government-overreach privacy product-liability regulatory-interpretation statutory-authorization Whether the right to marry, have children, and raise a family free from unwarranted invasion of familial privacy and confidentiality is protected unde…
19-8689 Rebeca Lawrence v. Medtronic Ninth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP adverse-events failure-to-warn fda-reporting fda-requirements fraud fraud-allegations medical-device pre-market-approval preemption product-liability reliance Whether Respondent committed fraud by hiding adverse events related to implantable opioids-infusion pumps
19-1069 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing Whether the chain of causation between a manufacturer's allegedly false or misleading statements or omissions and end payments for prescription drugs …
19-869 Nicole Weber v. Allergan, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied class-iii-device class-iii-medical-device current-good-manufacturing-practices fda-preemption fda-premarket-approval manufacturing-defect medical-device product-liability res-ipsa-loquitur Can a plaintiff use the res ipsa loquitur doctrine as evidence that a Class III product had a manufacturing defect?
19-192 Matthew Herrick v. Grindr LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived affirmative-defense communications-decency-act failure-to-warn fraud interactive-computer-services motion-to-dismiss negligence non-publication-torts product-liability publication-torts section-230 Does the Communications Decency Act § 230(c)(1) prevent well pleaded causes of action for non-publication torts?
18-1335 Continental Motors, Inc. v. Elizabeth Snider, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response Waived aviation-accident aviation-safety component-part component-part-defect component-part-liability general-aviation general-aviation-revitalization-act manufacturer-immunity manufacturer-liability manufacturing-defect preemption product-liability statute-of-repose Whether the preemptive statute of repose created by the General Aviation Revitalization Act insulates the designer and manufacturer of a 37-year-old g…
18-1314 Kimberly Meador, et al. v. Apple, Inc. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1332 access-to-courts certification-to-state-supreme-court civil-rights collision court-access distracted-driving diversity-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction-28-usc-1332 driver-distraction due-process erie-doctrine negligence product-liability smartphone-manufacturer-liability statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction texas-law Whether Texas courts would hold a smartphone manufacturer liable for injuries and deaths caused by a driver distracted by the manufacturer's smartphon…
18-1140 Avco Corporation v. Jill Sikkelee, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of David Sikkelee, Deceased, et al. Third Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied CVSGAmici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) aircraft-design aviation-safety design-defect federal-aviation-act federal-preemption field-preemption impossibility-preemption preemption product-liability state-law Whether the Federal Aviation Act preempts state-law design-defect claims
18-998 Sandra Waite, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John Waite, Jr. v. Union Carbide Corporation, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied Response Waived asbestos asbestos-liability asbestos-litigation civil-procedure corporate-registration due-process forum-selection in-state-causation mesothelioma personal-jurisdiction product-liability products-liability specific-jurisdiction three-prong-test Whether the circuit court erred when it ignored the three-prong analysis the Court has repeatedly set forth for analyzing specific jurisdiction and, i…
18-7142 Evelyn Talley v. Pride Mobility Products Corporation, et al. North Carolina 2018-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process full-and-fair-trial negligence privileges-and-immunities product-liability trial-on-merits Are state courts required to allow a plaintiff in product liability case alleging negligence a full and fair trial on the merits under the privileges …