United States Ninth Circuit

Consumer Product Safety Act, 15 USC SS 2051-2084, does not preempt product safety requirements imposed by state common law or state product liability suits based on violations of requirements that are "identical" to those already imposed by federal standards.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/04/2000
• Decided 12/12/2000
• Published 12/12/2000

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CANBY, NOONAN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey P. Nolan, Santa Monica, California, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel J. Stephenson, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the appellees.