Add to ORKGLitigation involving defective products has increasingly become a pre-trial battle to overcome a series of technical defenses that have become a stock part of the manufacturer\u27s defense. Defendants invariably raise the government contractor defense where the defective product resulted from some governmental involvement in the manufacturing process, no matter how peripheral or superfluous was the government\u27s involvement in that process. The defense by its nature only applies to design defect cases. A defect in the manufacturing process is not protected by the defense
As military functions are increasingly outsourced to corporate contractors, civil courts face adjudi...
The Department of Defense awards over $600 billion in government defense contracts to private contra...
In recent years, the Supreme Court clarified the scope of immunity afforded to contractors for damag...
The government contract defense is an affirmative defense that shields a manufacturer from liability...
In Boyle v. United Technologies Corp., the United States Supreme Court held military contractors who...
Courts are unwilling to impose products liability on government contractors, particularly during war...
The government contract defense, known as the Boyle defense, shields those successfully invoking it ...
This article examines special defenses in products liablitly. Specifically, the government contracto...
The United States Supreme Court held that the federal government cannot be liable in contract for br...
This Article is about the military contractor defense: the legal doctrine which insulates weapons ma...
This Article examines the tests of design defectiveness developed by the courts, particularly in app...
Defense contractors are increasingly seeking commercial customers and markets beyond traditional Dep...
The authors discuss the practical and legal problems involved in proving a defect in a product liabi...
During World War II, the U.S. Government sought out contractors in the name of “patriotism” to resea...
Rarely does the United States Supreme Court consider and decide an issue of tort law, especially one...
As military functions are increasingly outsourced to corporate contractors, civil courts face adjudi...
The Department of Defense awards over $600 billion in government defense contracts to private contra...
In recent years, the Supreme Court clarified the scope of immunity afforded to contractors for damag...
The government contract defense is an affirmative defense that shields a manufacturer from liability...
In Boyle v. United Technologies Corp., the United States Supreme Court held military contractors who...
Courts are unwilling to impose products liability on government contractors, particularly during war...
The government contract defense, known as the Boyle defense, shields those successfully invoking it ...
This article examines special defenses in products liablitly. Specifically, the government contracto...
The United States Supreme Court held that the federal government cannot be liable in contract for br...
This Article is about the military contractor defense: the legal doctrine which insulates weapons ma...
This Article examines the tests of design defectiveness developed by the courts, particularly in app...
Defense contractors are increasingly seeking commercial customers and markets beyond traditional Dep...
The authors discuss the practical and legal problems involved in proving a defect in a product liabi...
During World War II, the U.S. Government sought out contractors in the name of “patriotism” to resea...
Rarely does the United States Supreme Court consider and decide an issue of tort law, especially one...
As military functions are increasingly outsourced to corporate contractors, civil courts face adjudi...
The Department of Defense awards over $600 billion in government defense contracts to private contra...
In recent years, the Supreme Court clarified the scope of immunity afforded to contractors for damag...