United States Second Circuit

Although plaintiff's awareness of the risk of placing his hand in defendant's machinery does not negate defendant's duty to warn, plaintiff must still demonstrate a causal connection between the absence of a certain warning on the machine and plaintiff's injuries.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/22/2000
• Decided 06/04/2001
• Published 06/04/2001

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:, Before CALABRESI and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Scott A. Korenbaum, Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington, Hempstead, NY, Frederick K. Brewington, on the brief, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robin Mary Heaney, Law Offices of Vincent D. McNamara, East Norwich, NY (James P. Haggerty, on the brief), for Defendant-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Appellee., John O. Brennan, Ryan & Brennan LLP, Floral Park, NY, for Third-Party-Defendant-Appellee.