Riegel v. Medtronic At Supreme Court: Common Law Against Federal Statute
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A major case impacting the medical device industry's vulnerability to product liability suits will land in the U.S. Supreme Court next month and legal scholars predict the outcome will be a close call
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