California Court of Appeal

In a strict liability manufacturing defect claim, judgment notwithstanding the verdict was proper where the products (latex gloves) did not differ from the manufacturer's intended result, nor have materially significant differences among identical units from the same product line.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2002
• Published 06/20/2002

Judges

•  HUFFMAN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Bien & Summers, E. Elizabeth Summers, Novato;  Kazan, McClain, Edises, Simon & Abrams, Philip A. Harley, Wes Wagnon and James L. Oberman, Oakland, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, James C. Martin, Costa Mesa, Thomas M. Freeman, Oakland, Denise M. Howell, Los Angeles;  Seyfarth, Shaw, Robert M. Mitchell and Lawrence E. Butler, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents.