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Public Policy and the Preemption of State Tort Claims against Medical Device Manufacturers (cont'd)

Endnotes

1. Richards, EP and Walter, C: Products Liability for Medical Devices: Federal Preemption of State Lawsuits, 12 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine #2, 97 (1993).[return to text]
2. King v. Collagen Corp., 983 F.2d 1130, 1138 (1st Cir. 1993).
3. Bernier v. Boston Edison Co. 380 Mass. 372, 403 N.E.2d 391 (1980).[return to text]
4. Ozuna v. American Home Prods. Corp. (In re Norplant Contraceptive Prods. Liab. Litig.), 1995 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14558 (E.D. Tex. Sept. 29, 1995).[return to text]
5. Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 125 L. Ed. 2d 469, __ U.S. __, 113 S. Ct. 2786 (U.S. 1993).[return to text]
6. 21 U.S.C. 360ee(b), see also: Genentech, Inc. v. Bowen, 676 F. Supp. 301 (Dist. Ct. D.C. 1987).[return to text]
7. Nuremberg Code, Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10. Reprinted in Levine R: Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research. 1981.[return to text]