United States Tenth Circuit

Warning label on life jacket stating that users may not float face-up in water does not defeat plaintiff's defective warning claim that label insufficiently warned users against not floating at all.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/06/2000
• Published 11/06/2000

Judges

• McKAY, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, McKAY, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David A. Walls (Joel H. McNatt with him on the briefs) of McKinney & Stringer, P.C., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Curtis L. Smith of Chubbuck, Smith & Rhodes, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Jason E. Roselius of Whitten, McGuire, Terry & Roselius, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (John Dexter Marble of Chubbuck, Smith & Rhodes for Premier Ski Boat Corp. d/b/a Waterski America;  Reggie N. Whitten, Douglas A. Terry, and R. Gregory Kirby of Whitten, McGuire, Terry & Roselius, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for HO Sports, Inc., with them on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.