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Recipe: Cinnamon-Raisin Whole Wheat Bagels
Two things that a transplanted New York bagel-snob like me doesn't like to admit are: 1) New York bagels aren't quite what they used to be, and 2) I like cinnamon-raisin bagels, even though they're newfangled. Just as French readers of our blog tell us that baguettes in France aren't what they used to be, many New York bagels have become mass-produced and bland, without the chew and crispy crust that I remember (there are exceptions but you have to seek them out). So here's how to hand-shape, boil, and bake your own. If you're really a traditionalist, don't bother rolling in the cinnamon, sugar, and raisins and you'll have a terrific plain whole grain bagel.—Jeff
Cinnamon-Raisin Whole Wheat Bagels
2 pounds (cantaloupe-size portion) Master Recipe dough (see below)
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/3 cup raisins
For the boiling-pot:
8 quarts boiling water
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1. Thirty minutes before baking time, preheat a baking stone near the middle of the oven to 425°F, with an empty broiler tray on any other shelf that won't interfere with rising bagels.
2. Mix the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Using your hands and a rolling pin, flatten the dough to a thickness of 1/4-inch. Sprinkle the dough with raisins and cinnamon-sugar. Roll up the dough, jelly-roll style, to incorporate the raisins. Shape into ball.
3. Cut off a 3 ounce piece of dough from the ball (about the size of a small peach). Dust the piece with more flour and quickly shape it into a ball by stretching the surface of the dough around to the bottom on all four sides, rotating the ball a quarter-turn as you go.
4. Punch your thumb through the dough to form the hole. Stretch it open with your fingers until the hole's diameter is about triple the width of the bagel wall.
5. Repeat to form the rest of the bagels, cover loosely with plastic wrap, and allow to rest at room temperature for 20 minutes.
6. Prepare the boiling-pot: Bring a large stockpot full of water to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and add the sugar and baking soda.
7. Drop the bagels into the simmering water one at a time, making sure they are not crowding one another. They need enough room to float without touching or they will be misshapen. Let them simmer for 2 minutes, flip them over with a slotted spoon, and simmer for another minute on the other side.
8. Remove them from the water, using the slotted spoon, and place on a clean kitchen towel that has been lightly dusted with whole wheat flour. This will absorb some of the excess water from the bagels. Then place them on a peel covered with whole wheat flour.
9. Slide the bagels directly onto the hot stone. Pour 1 cup of hot tap water into the broiler tray, and quickly close the oven door. Bake with steam for about 20-25 minutes, until deeply browned and firm.
Serve these a bit warm—they're fantastic!
Master Recipe: A Whole Grain Artisan Free-Form Loaf
Prep time: 15 minutes to prepare enough dough for 4 loaves, to be baked on 4 different days. Loaves average 5 minutes of active preparation time (can double or halve recipe).
5 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tablespoons granulated yeast (2 packets)
1 tablespoon coarse kosher salt (like Morton's)
1/4 cup vital wheat gluten
4 cups lukewarm water (about 100°F)
Cornmeal or parchment paper for the pizza peel
1 to 2 tablespoons of whole seed mixture for sprinkling: sesame, flaxseed, caraway, raw sunflower, poppy, and anise
1. Measure in dry ingredients: In a 5-quart bowl or lidded plastic food-grade bucket, whisk together the flours, yeast, salt, and vital wheat gluten.
2. Add the water all at once and mix without kneading using a wooden spoon, until all ingredients are uniformly moist, producing a loose and very wet dough.
3. Rising: Cover with a lid (not airtight). Allow the mixture to rise at room temperature until it begins to collapse, about 2 hours, but no more than 5 hours. DO NOT PUNCH DOWN! After rising, the dough can be baked immediately, or covered (not completely airtight) and refrigerated up to 14 days. The dough will be easier to work with after at least 3 hours refrigeration.
Editor's Note: Use half this dough to make the cinnamon-raisin bagels above. Make a second batch with the rest of the dough or bake it in a loaf as follows:
4. On baking day, prepare a pizza peel by sprinkling it with cornmeal to prevent the bread from sticking when you transfer it to the oven. Uncover the dough and sprinkle the surface with flour. Pull up and cut off a 1-pound (grapefruit-size) piece of dough (serrated knives or kitchen shears are best).
Gently stretch the surface of the dough around to the bottom on all four sides, rotating the a quarter-turn as you go to form a ball. Most of the dusting flour will fall off; it's not intended to be incorporated into the dough. The bottom of the ball may appear to be a collection of bunched ends, but it will flatten out and adhere during resting and baking. The correctly shaped final product will be smooth and cohesive. The entire process should take no more than 20 to 40 seconds. If you work the dough longer than this it may make your loaf dense.
5. Elongate the ball, stretch gently, and taper the ends by rolling between your palms.
6. Allow to rest, loosely covered with plastic wrap, on the prepared pizza peel for 90 minutes (40 minutes if you're using fresh, un-refrigerated dough).
7. 30 minutes before baking, preheat oven to 450°F, with baking stone on middle rack. Place empty broiler tray for holding water on any other shelf.
8. Using a pastry brush, paint the top crust with water. Sprinkle with seed mixture and slash with 1/4-inch deep parallel cuts across the loaf, using a serrated bread knife.
9. Bake it: Slide the loaf off the peel and onto the baking stone (if you used parchment, it slides right along with the loaf into the oven). Quickly but carefully pour 1 cup of hot water into the broiler tray and close the oven door. Bake for about 30 minutes, or until the crust is richly browned and firm to the touch.
Related: Five Things to Do With Leftover Bagels
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Oh, my mouth is watering! Warm homemade bagels and a hot drink on such a cold day as this....
Homemade warm, crusty bagel cool, rich cream cheese = one of the greatest treats ever devised.
Oh boy oh boy, I am trying this this weekend. You have also convinced me to get that book.
I tried making bagels once many years ago and they all turned out flat. I suspect that my water was boiling rather than simmering and the pressure of the bubbles deformed them. Word to the wise.
Also, that is the most inviting photo of coffee I have seen in some time.
I just made these and I think this bagel recipe needs quite a bit of tweaking! The recipe in Baking With Julia is much better as is Peter Reinhart's.
These whole wheat ones really lacked flavor -- I thought they would be a little toasty and nutty from the wheat plus sweet and cinnamon-y of course. No, on all counts. Plus they are flat-ish, wrinkly things that don't puff and smooth out in the oven like other bagels I've made. So a strike on the visual appeal as well.
And now I still have pounds of this master dough!
FAIL. I don't know what I did wrong! I baked them for 25 minutes and they still seemed gooey on the inside. I baked them for another 20 minutes or so but now they are just flat and hard on the outside and some are still a little gooey on the inside. Darn.
Also- I haven't given up hope on the taste. We are having them for breakfast tomorrow so maybe they are just not pretty but will taste great. We'll see!
I just made the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes bagels and they were a big disappointment. If you read Peter Reinhart's recipe (I haven't tried it yet), there is way less water. I think the ultra-hydrated recipe used to hold up to days of refrigeration that ABI5 relies on does not make for suitable bagels.


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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 15 (Tierramérica).- Scarcity of phosphate, an indispensable fertilizer for farming, is worrying soil experts, given the voracious plans of Brazil and many other countries in the race for biofuel leadership.A salt of phosphoric acid salt, phosphate is a chemical compound made up of a central phosphorous atom and four oxygen atoms.Phosphorous is a "finite and irreplaceable" mineral, whose known reserves that are economically viable for exploitation could run out in 60 to 100 years if the current pace of global consumption continues, Euripedes Malavolta, veteran agronomist and researcher at the University of Sao Paulo, told Tierramérica."Without phosphorous there will be no agriculture, nor biofuels, nor life. Humanity will end," he said. Other minerals, like nitrogen, potassium, cobalt, magnesium and molybdenum, are also indispensable, but their sources are not as limited and, except for the first two, their consumption is relatively low."Phosphate runs the risk of running out before petroleum does," José Oswaldo Siqueira, professor of soil microbiology at the Federal University of Lavras, told a bio-energy conference held Sep. 26 in Sao Paulo.Strong expansion of agriculture for bio-energy purposes would accelerate depletion of phosphate, which is a fact to consider in any "strategic vision" for that sector, he said in a Tierramérica interview.Categorizing biofuels -- ethanol and biodiesel distilled from sugarcane, maize and other crops -- as "renewable" should not blind us to the fact that some aspects of farm production, like soils and mineral nutrients, are not in infinite supply, said Siqueira, a program director at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development. For example, Australia is not interested in dedicating itself to agro-energy production because of its limited water resources, he added.Without a "hardly probable" discovery of large, new phosphate sources, the current reserves will last only until mid-century, says Jean Marc von der Weid, public policy coordinator for the non-governmental ASPTA, which provides consulting and services for alternative farming projects and defends agro-ecology.Environmentally friendly farming techniques sharply reduce the loss of fertilizers by recovering what is left in plant waste, he said. Furthermore, priority could be placed on crop species and varieties that are more adaptable to soils poor in phosphorous."I am a voice calling in the desert, like John the Baptist," complains Malavolta, who for a long time was alone in Brazil in warning about the importance of implementing more efficient use of phosphate.By improving acidic soils with lime "one can use one-third of the phosphate we were utilizing before," he said by way of example. And Brazil has soil that is very acidic and poor in phosphorous, he added.Genetic modification to develop varieties that need less fertilizer is another path yet to be followed. 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Posted by Anonymous on 08/08/2011
I came with my husband on a thurs night first time. Had the tomato basil soup which was very good. After the weekend I said ill try to make the soup at home so I called them up to ask what they put inside and they transferred me over to a very rude lady that was not nice at all. She couldve maybe said it iin a nice way instead she just said go look online and get some ideas of your own I'm not giving out any of that info.
Posted by annonymous on 05/22/2011
I called in advance to order a Chocolate Mousse Cake from My Most Favorite Foods. The woman I spoke to was incredibly rude and short on the phone. She offered to send me photos of some specialty cakes she had created, took my email, then never contacted me. I called anyway the next day to order the Chocolate cake and when I picked it up the cake was leaning to one side and slightly crushed. Yes, it was delicious. Everyone loved the white chocolate curls. And its a shame because their food really is quite nice, but I would never return or recommend them, simply because the service is so unfriendly and unhelpful. I did speak to a few nice ladies behind the counter that helped me out in picking the cake. So congrats to them, for doing a beautiful job.
Posted by Micol on 03/21/2011
The food was good but very expensive.after the meal we went to the counter to order some sweets and the people in charge were rude and we will never go back.
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If your looking for old world "dairy" - this isn't for you. Finally, a kosher restaurant that has a hip feel and offers upscale comfort food while only using fresh ingredients. We started with the tomato basil soup and eggplant rollatini which were delicious. I had the nicoise salad (a large overflowing bowl) and my husband had the halibut - both were outstanding. For dessert we shared the white chocolate mousse cake which is to die for. During the meal the owner stopped by to see how our meal was which was a very nice touch. The wait staff was very attentive and they had a great understanding of the menu. I would highly recommend this place and look forward to returning soon.
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As a long time non-kosher resident of the UWS - I eat out at least 5 times a week. I pleasantly stumbled upon My Most Favorite Food on my way down to Riverside Park and have frequented it several times now. Everything I've ordered has been superb and fresh. It compares to some of the better non-kosher restaurants in the neighborhood that I eat out at. The first time I dined there, I started with the shiitake mushroom skewer salad and loved the dressing so much that I took home a 16oz container of it. I then had the Grilled Ahi Tuna (cooked to perfection) and substituted the fries for sweet potato fries and they were beyond. For dessert I had the chocolate peanut butter tart and an iced cappuccino and it was one of the best "homemade" desserts I've ever had. The cappuccino reminded me of my trip to Italy last summer. I returned to My Most Favorite Food on Tuesday and they had standing line only. The staff was terrific and kept me informed of when a table would be opening. I had the tuna bolognese and it was delicious - as good as my grandmother's meat sauce. My server was attentive and very accomodating. For dessert I had the strawberry shortcake - need I say more - fresh strawberries and whipped cream!! This restaurant is for people with discerning palates.
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I was there on a Thursday night. Half full. I sat in the enclosed courtyard in the back with my fellow tribesmen and ladies. I had the wild salmon. I could tell it was fresh, which is always nice. It came with sweet potato fries: why yes, I will. I had the apple crumb dish for dessert. They always do good desserts. Bottom line: It's a great date place, or a special occasion place. It's not a diner. I think that's what people are confused about. There are cheaper options nearby, but the food is better here.
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If you're looking for a miserable, overpriced meal, you've found the place! The food isn't good, but that's the best part of this place. They seat you at a table too samll for your party, won't move you when the lights go off and the a/c stops working in your area and then can't calculate the bill because of computer problems. Then, to add insult to injury, they decide they can't accept credit cards!


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Captaris and Sony Ericsson develop UAE mobile business unit
Captaris, deliverer of IT solutions and Sony Ericsson are collaborating to develop the Mobile Business Solutions market in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and South Africa.
The two companies are promoting the new Sony Ericsson P800 together with a special offer of a free Infinite Mobile Delivery three-user license from Captaris, enabling mobile employees to make timely business decisions and improve customer response time by gaining access to business-critical information.
US-based Captaris is a provider of business information delivery solutions that integrate and automate the flow of messages, data and documents. Captaris produces a suite of products and services, in partnership with leading enterprise software companies, delivered through a global distribution network.
Captaris has over 100,000 systems installed worldwide, with more than 90 of the Fortune 100 companies using the company's award-winning products and services to reduce costs and increase the performance of critical business information investments. — (menareport.com)
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Survival of the Thriftiest
If "Movin' On," the '70s television series about truckers were produced today, it might be titled "Holding On." Freight rate increases lag behind hikes in fuel and expenses while truck repossessions and carrier bankruptcies soar. Overdrive's compensation survey indicates owner-operators netted 10 percent less in 2000 than in 1999.
Still, many owner-operators are able to pay their bills and have a little left over without squeezing pennies so tight they turn to battery cables. These truckers share common practices: planning and saving for expenses, price shopping, keeping good records, working with a knowledgeable accountant, and doing as much of their own truck maintenance as possible.
Chuck Winborn's 18 years as an owner-operator taught him to save, especially after his engine failed once and he had to refinance his truck. "I'm just like a lot of guys in that I was on the verge of losing my truck once," Winborn says. "I finally figured out what I was doing."
Winborn asked his carrier, Tennessee-based Comtrak Logistics, to automatically deposit a part of his paychecks in a Florida bank, which was not easily accessible to his Alabama home. Later, he increased that deduction. "My last engine repair for a full overhaul cost $10,000, but I had the money," he says.
He ran 110,000 miles last year, doing regional hauling. With the help of a surcharge, he earned 86 cents a mile loaded and 75 cents a mile unloaded.
Like most successful owner-operators, Winborn manages several ways, including buying older equipment. His 1987 Peterbilt is paid for, but age made it less of a burden when he was making payments. "I believe that's where a lot of guys get in trouble," Winborn says. "Instead of a truck they can afford to make a living with, they buy the most expensive thing."
Winborn gets 5.2 to 5.5 miles per gallon, but he conserves fuel where he can. "I shut down my truck instead of idling," Winborn says. In the winter, he uses a mattress warmer, which plugs into his cigarette lighter.
As a former truck mechanic and shop foreman, he can do his own repairs and maintenance, eliminating labor fees.
Finally, like most successful owner-operators, he has faith in his accountant, Rosemary Collins. "It's imperative that you find somebody who understands the tax code pertaining to the trucking industry," Winborn says.
Collins, owner of Rosemary's Business Services Inc. in Helena, Ala., says Winborn's logging of expenses by computer pays at tax time. "He's on top of things," she says. Winborn says his home office deduction and his practice of keeping receipts are worth it. "It's a cinch by the inch and hard by the yard," he says.
Ray Brewer: "You may have to take a bad load to get to a good load."
Ray Brewer of West Virginia began saving when "my wife had to get a job to support my habit" in 1996. His trucking habit has him driving 110,000 miles a year hauling medical equipment. He now needs fewer oil changes after switching to synthetic oil and foam filters, which save $500 a year. "You can't pinpoint one thing, but oil changes are a big thing," Brewer says. "Everyone is interested in saving dollars, but you save pennies at a time."
Using synthetic oil and cruise control gets Brewer 8.2 to 9.5 miles per gallon on his 1999 Kenworth. The owner-operator of 20 years additionally cuts expenses by doing his own maintenance and avoiding motel stays. Brewer's wife, Linda, now does his taxes, but she learned through using a good accountant. "If I sneeze, I get a receipt," Brewer says.
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Other media outlets report jurors will be asked to decide if 51-year-old Jonathan W. Ellington intentionally killed 41-year-old Vonette Larsen of Athol on New Year's Day 2006. He was previously convicted of second-degree murder, but the Supreme Court cited prosecutorial misconduct in ordering a new trial.
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After all-star break. Why rush back?
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@tayC... one more thing i forgot to throw out there.. Chuck will never lose that big ol dumb smile with all you Chuck-Swallowers out there... =-0
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We don't need/want Roy in this years playoffs... let him heal/ workout over the summer.. and see if he can manage to play next year.. We saw what happened when he tried to play Superman for last years playoffs.. and now he sits again... Look to next year for BRoy..
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Don't say it's over, 'cause that's the worst news I could hear
I swear that I will, do my best to be here just the way you like it
Even though its hard to hide
Push my feelings all aside
I will rearrange my plans and change for you
If I could go back; that's the first thing I would do
I swear that I would, do my best to folow through
Come up with a master plan
A home-run hit, a winning stand
A guarantee and not a promise
That I'll never let your love slip from my hands
If it's the beaches… if it's the beaches' sands you want
Then you will have them
If it's the mountains' bending rivers
Then you will have them
If it's your wish to run away
Then I will grant it
Take whatever what you think of
While I go gas up the truck
Pack the old love letters up
We will read them when we forget why we left here
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Here I stand like a soldier home from war
With nothing to do but remember the shutter of bombs
I'm sure it never quite goes away
It never quite goes away, oh
Here I sit like a beginner beginning again
And all those fuck-ups counted for nothing 'cause nothing makes sense
And I am never quite fully awake
And never completely asleep, yeah
I'm walking around like a soldier who's home from war
Lost in the foreign landscape I used to know
Will I ever feel like I belong?
Will I ever feel like I belong anywhere?
Well, here I lie like a lover who isn't in love
Who stares at the cracks in the ceiling six feet above
And who knows just how it feels to buckle beneath the weight
And there's only so much you can take
There's only so much you can take
I might never be normal again
But who cares?
I ask, who cares?
And now I'm standing disheveled at your door
Covered in dust and dirt but full of hope
We might never be normal again
Might never be normal again, but who cares?
I ask, who cares?
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I was just reading some of "the nicest things a stranger has ever done for you/you've ever done for a stranger" on reddit and therefore restoring my faith in some of humanity and it got me thinking:
at some point in high school, I think it was junior year, I woke up on a regular old dark-ass morning dreading the day ahead to a missed call and voicemail on my cell phone. I thought "who in the world would have called me—and left a voicemail in the middle of the night?!" hoping of course that it was my then love-interest, I checked it. It turned out to be a completely wrong number, but the man felt bad just hanging up and left me a short message: "Hello, this is not the number I meant to call but I didn't want to just hang up. Hope you have a nice day!" And that was it. I don't really know why, but his consideration just made me smile and made for a better start to my morning.


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The New York Court of Appeals recently held that New York law does not recognize an independent, equitable cause of action for medical monitoring for smoking-related diseases, such as lung cancer, brought by current or former smokers who have not been diagnosed with such a disease, and who are not being investigated by a physician for such a suspected disease. Caronia v. Philip Morris, USA, Inc., 998 N.E.2d 1065 (N.Y. 2013). The plaintiffs were all over the age of fifty and had been "pack a day" smokers for at least 20 years.
The court based its holding on the principle that a threat of future harm is not sufficient to impose liability in a tort context, noting that New York law requires physical harm as a prerequisite to tort recovery. According to the court, the physical harm requirement for tort claims provides a basis for verifying worthy claims and eliminating spurious ones by defining the class of persons who actually possess a cause of action, providing a basis for the factfinder to determine whether a litigant actually possesses a claim, and protecting court dockets from being clogged with frivolous and unfounded claims.
The dissent, and several other jurisdictions, do not agree with this holding, and the court's opinion provides a good discussion of both sides of the issue.
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The Court of Appeals of South Carolina recently considered whether a worker who was seriously burned when the chemical sodium bromate caught fire at his workplace could recover against the suppliers of the chemical even though the plaintiff was not "doing anything" with the product at the time of the incident. See Lawing v. Trinity Mfg., No. 5166, 2013 WL 4451075 (S.C. Ct. App. Aug. 21, 2013). The trial court granted summary judgment to the defendants on the plaintiff's strict liability cause of action and entered judgment for the defendants on the plaintiff's remaining claims. The trial court ruled that the worker could not recover, because he was not "using" the product at the time it caught fire. The court of appeals reversed.
The appellate court examined several of the official comments to the Restatement (Second) of Torts § 402A (1965), which is the genesis of strict products liability in numerous states, including South Carolina. Considering the comments together, the court concluded that the legislature intended that the term "user" include persons who foreseeably could come into contact with the dangerous nature of a product. Therefore, a person who examines a product for warnings and other safety information is one whom the seller intends to use that information to avoid the dangers associated with the product and is therefore a person who foreseeably could come into contact with such dangers. A person who reads a warning for this purpose is not a casual bystander. Rather, the person "uses" the product by reading the warning.
At the time he was injured, the plaintiff was examining bags of sodium bromate for information warning him that it would not be safe for him to work near them. The court held that in this respect, he used the product exactly as the suppliers intended. Because he was a "user" of the product, he was entitled to recover under the theory of strict liability, and the trial court erred in entering judgment for the suppliers.
Lawing provides yet another example of why it is unwise to make assumptions regarding the possible scope of relief under products liability theories. Although perhaps surprising, it turns out that a person can use a product merely by looking at it.
July 11, 2013
The Court of Appeals of Wisconsin recently applied the economic loss rule in a products liability action by a homeowner's property insurer against the manufacturer of an allegedly defective water softener that leaked and damaged drywall, flooring, and woodwork in the home. See State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Hague Quality Water, Int'l, 2013 WI App 10, 826 N.W.2d 412. The insurer, State Farm, brought only tort claims against the manufacturer. The manufacturer defended on the basis that Wisconsin's economic loss doctrine precluded recovery under the plaintiff's theories. The trial court granted the manufacturer's motion for summary judgment. The court of appeals rejected the manufacturer's argument, holding that the insurer was entitled to proceed under its tort theories.
At the threshold, the court of appeals noted that the economic loss doctrine bars recovery of purely economic losses through tort remedies when the only damage is to the product purchased by the consumer. Hence, the doctrine does not apply when a defect in the product causes personal injury or damage to "other property." It was the "other property" exception with which the court was concerned in the case at hand.
The court noted that Wisconsin engages in a two-part analysis to determine whether damaged property constitutes "other property," so as to allow the pursuit of tort remedies. First, courts consider whether the defective product and the damaged property are part of an "integrated system." If they are, then the damaged property is considered to be the product itself and is not "other property." If they are not, the court then examines the expected function of the product and asks whether the purchaser should have foreseen that the product could cause the damage at issue. If so, then the damaged property is not "other property." In order to be "other property," the damaged property must survive both tests.
As to the integrated-system test, the court of appeals concluded that the consumer's water softener was not part of an integrated system, because it had a function apart from the drywall, flooring, and woodwork in the home. In other words, in order to come within the economic loss doctrine, a defective product must be part of a larger system, and if it lacks a function apart from its value in such a system, it is not "other property" for damage to which an action will lie in tort. The court noted that property has been deemed to be part of an integrated system precluding a tort recovery when, for example, it consisted of cement that was part of pavers that had been damaged, a replacement gear in a printing press, and windows in a home.
As to the disappointed-expectations test, the court found that such test did not preclude the insurer's recovery under its tort theories. This was so, according to the court, because the water softener was neither expected nor intended to interact with the drywall, flooring, and woodwork in the consumer's home. The alleged failure of the water softener did not have anything to do with the purpose for which it was purchased. The court observed that under the disappointed-expectations test, the economic loss doctrine precludes recovery if prevention of the risk at issue was one of the contractual expectations impelling the purchase of the defective product. Because the water softener was not reasonably expected by the consumers to interact with the drywall, flooring, and woodwork of their home, the damage caused by the product was not merely disappointed expectations, and the economic loss rule did not preclude a tort recovery. In this regard, the court stated that, although foreseeable interaction between the purchased product and the damaged property may be considered as a factor in the disappointed-expectations test, without more it is insufficient to bar a tort recovery.
February 5, 2013
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas recently decided numerous choice-of-law issues in a products liability action brought by the family of a deceased helicopter pilot. See Sulak v. Am. Eurocopter Corp., Act. No. 4:09-CV-651-Y, 2012 WL 4740176 (N.D. Tex. Oct. 3, 2012). The decedent was a resident of Hawaii and was killed in Hawaii while piloting a helicopter manufactured and distributed by the defendants, who were located in France. The decedent's family filed their action in Hawaii state court, and the defendants removed it to federal court in Hawaii. The Hawaii federal court then transferred the action to the federal district court in Texas based on one defendant's insufficient contacts with Hawaii.
In light of the fact that the action ended up in federal court in Texas and that the crash had occurred in Hawaii, the court was faced with numerous choice-of-law issues involving both procedural and substantive questions. Noting that it had jurisdiction over the lawsuit based upon federal diversity jurisdiction, the court stated that it was required to apply Texas choice-of-law rules to determine whether Texas or Hawaii law governed the plaintiffs' action. Texas applies the most-significant-relationship test set forth in the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws. Under that analysis, it is not necessary that a single state's law control all substantive issues. Each issue is, therefore, considered separately, and the state law that has the most significant relationship to the issue controls.
The court observed that under the Texas most-significant-relationship analysis, the law of the place of the injury governs questions of substantive law unless the policy considerations of the Restatement's choice-of-law principles show that another forum has a more significant relationship with such an issue. The court contrasted this rule with the principle that the applicable procedural rules are those of the forum. The court noted the general rule that if a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure or Evidence governs a disputed point, the Federal Rule is to be followed, even in diversity cases. The court concluded that the Federal Rule of Evidence restricting the admissibility of subsequent remedial measures should govern in strict products liability cases. The court also held that it would apply the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure governing the impleading of a third-party defendant, rather than Hawaii law governing the liability of third-party defendants, when the issue was not the substantive question of whether a potential third-party defendant was liable, but the procedural question of whether such a defendant could be impleaded.
Turning to the issue of the necessity of expert testimony to prove the existence of a defect in the product, the court noted that under Texas law, courts undertake a choice-of-law analysis only if there is a conflict of laws that actually affects the outcome of an issue. The court found such a conflict regarding the requirement of expert testimony, in that Hawaii law does not always require such testimony to prove the existence of a product defect but Texas law does when the defect involves technical matters beyond the general experience of the jury. Section 135 of the Restatement provides that the local law of the forum determines whether a party has introduced sufficient evidence to warrant a finding in his or her favor on an issue of fact. The court concluded that Texas conflict-of-laws rules include the principle set forth in section 135 and found that the issue of the necessity of expert testimony is a question of the amount of evidence required to establish a defect, which is governed by the law of the forum. Thus, the plaintiffs were required to present expert testimony to prove that there was a defect in the helicopter.
The court also addressed the issue of whether the plaintiffs were required to prove the existence of a safer, alternative design that would have prevented or significantly reduced the risk of injury. Pursuant to Texas law, a plaintiff must prove that there was such a safer design. Under Hawaii law, the existence of a safer design is merely a factor to be applied in determining whether a product was defective. The court concluded that under Texas conflict-of-laws principles, Texas law applied to the issue because it was also one involving the sufficiency of evidence, pursuant to Restatement § 135.
Finally, the court turned to the choice-of-law issues regarding the questions of joint and several liability and comparative fault. The court determined that under Texas conflict-of-laws rules as set forth in the Restatement, the court was required to consider specific qualitative factors to decide which state's law applied, since the general choice-of-law principles did not favor any one state. Those factors were (1) that the place of the injury pointed to Hawaii, where the pilot worked and lived and where the crash occurred; (2) that the location of the conduct causing the injury was France, where the helicopter was designed and manufactured; (3) that the location of the parties implicated numerous fora; and (4) that the place of the parties' relationship was neutral.
As to the relevant specific factors, the court stated that under the governing Texas principles as set forth in the Restatement, the focus is primarily on balancing the competing interests of the policies of the forum and those of other interested jurisdictions. Applying this test, the court found that Hawaii law applied to the issues of joint and several liability and comparative fault. As to joint and several liability, Hawaii had a greater interest in seeing its pure comparative negligence damages policies enforced than Texas had in enforcing its percentage-based negligence scheme. This was because the accident occurred in Hawaii, the deceased pilot was a resident of Hawaii, and the helicopter was operated and maintained in Hawaii. Under the circumstances, Hawaii's interest in protecting those within its borders from defective products imported into the state was more substantial than Texas's interest, which arose largely because it was the litigation forum. The court found that the same reasons favored the application of Hawaii law to the issue of comparative negligence.
Finally, the court determined that the factor protecting justified expectations was neutral because the parties had no expectations that the laws of a particular forum would be applied. Second, the factor examining the needs of the interstate and international systems did not favor a particular forum. And third, the factor analyzing certainty, predictability, and uniformity of result was of diminished importance because the parties likely did not give advance thought to the legal consequences of their transactions.
Sulak is thus an instructive decision on many choice-of-law issues that may arise in products liability litigation. The court aptly discussed and applied the principles contained in the Restatement, which have been incorporated into the choice-of-law rules of most states. The opinion is also helpful in distinguishing between procedural and substantive law for purposes of conflict-of-laws analysis.
September 25, 2012
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently decided that an immunity defense given to a drug manufacturer by a state statute was preempted by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ("FDCA"). See Marsh v. Genentech, Inc., Nos. 11-2373, 11-2385, 11-2419, 11-2417, 2012 WL 3854780 (6th Cir. Sept. 6, 2012). Therefore, the manufacturer's entitlement to immunity had to be analyzed under federal law, despite the existence of an applicable state immunity provision.
The plaintiffs were consumers who alleged that they suffered life-threatening side effects from their use of the defendant's psoriasis drug "Raptiva." Raptiva worked by suppressing T cells to prevent them from migrating to the skin and causing psoriasis. However, because T cells fight infection, their suppression has been linked to life-threatening side effects. Following reports of such effects, including a rare brain infection in patients taking Raptiva, the defendant removed the drug from the market in 2009.
One of the plaintiffs in the consolidated cases had begun using Raptiva in 2004 and later suffered viral meningitis and a collapsed lung. She sued Genentech under the theory of strict liability, alleging defective design and failure to warn, and also under the theories of negligence, breach of warranty, and fraud. She argued that both before and after approval of Raptiva by the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), the defendant had known of the dangerous side effects, concealed them from the public, and not included them in the drug's labeling. The plaintiff further alleged that Genentech had failed to update statements of contraindications, warnings, precautions, and adverse reactions based upon what the defendant knew and that Genentech had negligently failed to comply with various FDA regulations.
The manufacturer moved to dismiss on the ground that it was immune from liability under the Michigan Products Liability Act. The state Act immunizes drug manufacturers from liability in products liability actions if the allegedly dangerous drug and its label were approved by the FDA and were in compliance with such approval at the time the drug left the manufacturer's control. The statute contains exceptions to immunity that apply if a manufacturer (1) has intentionally withheld from or misrepresented to the FDA information concerning the drug that is required by the FDCA, and the drug would not have been approved if the information had been accurately submitted, or (2) makes an illegal payment to an official or employee of the FDA for the purpose of securing or maintaining approval of the drug. The district court granted Genentech's motion to dismiss on the basis that neither statutory exception applied. Citing Sixth Circuit precedent, the district court noted that federal law preempts state tort claims premised on the Michigan Act's exceptions unless there is a finding by the FDA itself that a manufacturer had committed fraud or bribery. The district court determined that because the plaintiff did not allege that the FDA had found that the defendant had committed fraud, her claims were preempted.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed. Observing that federal law impliedly preempts a state law if the state law creates an unacceptable obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress, the court noted that the FDCA authorizes the FDA to investigate and to penalize fraud in a drug manufacturer's disclosures or elsewhere in the drug approval process. The court of appeals stated that unlike a common-law tort claim, a fraud-on-the-FDA cause of action exists solely by virtue of the FDCA's disclosure requirements for manufacturers seeking drug approval. According to the court, the alleged wrong is inadequate disclosure to a federal agency, rather than breach of the common-law duty to exercise reasonable care. The court noted that under the Michigan Act, fraud on the FDA is not an independent cause of action, but an exception to the immunity afforded to drug manufacturers if the statutory prerequisites to the exception are satisfied. However, according to the court, the exception requires proof of fraud committed against the FDA. Therefore, a plaintiff's fraud argument must be treated as a threshold claim subject to preemption by the FDCA. Claims based upon federal findings of bribery or fraud on the FDA can defeat a manufacturer's immunity granted by the Michigan Act. Because the plaintiff alleged no such findings, her fraud-on-the-FDA claim failed.
As to the plaintiff's separate claim that the defendant was not entitled to immunity under the state Act because the defendant did not comply with the FDA approval process, the court of appeals similarly concluded that the plaintiff's claim was preempted by federal law. According to the court, the plaintiff's allegations that Genentech had failed to comply with the FDCA's postmarketing reporting requirements by concealing the dangerous side effects of Raptiva were premised on a violation of federal law and implicated the relationship between a federal agency and a regulated entity. The court observed that the plaintiff's claim improperly asked the court to assume a role usually occupied by the FDA.
Finally, the court rejected the plaintiff's argument that under the state Act, manufacturer immunity based upon compliance with FDA approval is merely an affirmative defense, such that the plaintiff was not required to plead noncompliance sufficient to defeat immunity. The court ruled that even if immunity were an affirmative defense, the manufacturer would be entitled to dismissal of the plaintiff's claims based on immunity. In so holding, the court stated that although a manufacturer would normally bear the burden of establishing an affirmative defense, the plaintiff's response to the manufacturer's motion to dismiss anticipated the defense of immunity in a way that demonstrated that the plaintiff's response lacked merit. According to the court, the plaintiff made an argument, which was preempted by the FDCA, that the manufacturer was not in compliance with the FDCA approval process.
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The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania recently decided a case involving issues of preemption under the Medical Device Amendments ("MDA") to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ("FDCA"). See Gross v. Stryker Corp., Civ. No. 11-1229, 2012 WL 876719 (W.D. Pa. Mar. 14, 2012). The case is important because it explains clearly both the grounds upon which a manufacturer may defend on the basis of MDA preemption and the basis upon which a plaintiff may circumvent the preemptive effect of the statute in bringing state tort claims.
In Gross, the plaintiff had received an implantation of an artificial hip prosthesis manufactured by the defendant. The plaintiff alleged that the device was defective and that the defect had caused him to suffer a serious infection at the operation site, with attendant pain and the necessity of a corrective procedure. The plaintiff sued under state law theories of strict liability, negligence, and breach of express and implied warranties.
The defendant argued that the plaintiff's state law claims were preempted by the MDA. The MDA contains an express preemptive section, which provides that no State may establish any requirement for a medical device that is different from or in addition to any requirement imposed under the FDCA and that relates to the safety or effectiveness of the device. See 21 U.S.C. § 360k(a). The court agreed that the plaintiff's claims were preempted by the MDA.
Initially, the court noted that for a state cause of action to be preempted by the MDA, the medical device at issue must have been subject to specific federal requirements related to its safety and effectiveness and the plaintiff's claim must be premised on state law that imposes different requirements. The court noted that, generally, state common-law claims contesting the safety and effectiveness of a device that received approval under the premarket approval process ("PMA") conducted by the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), such as the hip prosthesis at issue in the case at hand, are subject to express preemption. This is because questions regarding a device's safety and effectiveness are requirements addressed in the PMA.
The court concluded that the plaintiff's state breach-of-implied-warranty claim imposed a requirement different from or in addition to the federal requirements and, therefore, was preempted by the MDA in light of the fact that Pennsylvania's "below commercial standards" requirement was not the same as the standards imposed by the FDA. The court similarly concluded that the plaintiff's negligence claim ran afoul of the preemptive reach of the MDA, given that the plaintiff alleged that the defendant had been negligent in placing the device into the stream of commerce when it contained unsafe manufacturing residuals or bacteria.
The court observed, however, that the MDA does not preclude all state law claims against the manufacturer of a medical device. According to the court, a plaintiff may premise a state claim on an allegation that the manufacturer violated FDA regulations, since the duties asserted by such a claim would parallel, rather than add to, the federal requirements. In order to state such a claim, a plaintiff may not merely recite that the defendant violated FDA regulations but must set forth facts showing action or inaction in the defendant's efforts to take part in the PMA or to implement its results. In the case under consideration, the plaintiff failed to state such a claim because he did not allege which precise duty the defendant had violated. Although the complaint averred that the defendant had breached FDA duties pursuant to current good-manufacturing-practice requirements, the court noted that these do not constitute a formal performance standard for a specific device, with which the manufacturer must comply.
June 5, 2012
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently affirmed a $21.06 million judgment, including $16.5 million for pain and suffering, in favor of a plaintiff who suffered severe injuries resulting from her use of "sulindac," the defendant's generic anti-inflammatory drug. See Bartlett v. Mut. Pharm. Co., No. 10-2277, 2012 WL 1522004 (1st Cir. 2012). Sulindac is known to cause a hypersensitivity reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and a related disease called toxic epidermal necrolysis ("SJS/TEN"). In December 2004, the plaintiff's physician prescribed sulindac under the brand name Clinoril for pain in the plaintiff's shoulder, and the plaintiff's pharmacist dispensed generic sulindac.
According to the court, the consequences for the plaintiff were "disastrous." The plaintiff developed SJS/TEN early in 2005. The court noted that TEN is diagnosed when 30% or more of the outer layer of skin on a patient's total body surface area has deteriorated, been burned off, or turned into an open wound. The plaintiff suffered TEN over 60% to 65% of her body. She was hospitalized for 70 days, including over 50 days in the burn unit. She suffered permanent injuries, including permanent near-blindness, esophageal burns, vaginal and lung injuries, and disfigurement. The plaintiff was unable to have sexual relations or to read, drive, or work. The plaintiff asserted multiple causes of action against the manufacturer in New Hampshire state court. The defendant removed the case to the federal district court. After removal, all claims but the plaintiff's defective-design cause of action were dismissed on summary judgment or voluntarily by the plaintiff.
Initially, the court of appeals noted that under the governing New Hampshire law, the plaintiff, who alleged that sulindac was defectively designed, was required to show that the drug was unreasonably dangerous due to its propensity to cause SJS/TEN. However, she was not required to establish that there existed an alternative, safer design for the drug. In reaching this conclusion, the court rejected the manufacturer's argument that a safer alternative is an essential element of a design-defect claim, over and above the existence of an unreasonably dangerous product. Hence, the district court had correctly permitted the plaintiff to establish that the sulindac was in a defective condition because it was unreasonably dangerous due to its propensity to cause SJS/TEN. Interestingly, on the eve of trial, the defendant abandoned a potential defense that the drug was unavoidably unsafe but was sold with an adequate warning.
The court next addressed the defendant's assertion that the plaintiff's state law claim was preempted by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ("FDCA"). Citing the Supreme Court's conclusion in Wyeth v. Levine, 555 U.S. 555 (2009), that Congress did not intend Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") oversight to be the exclusive means of ensuring drug safety and effectiveness, the court of appeals extended the holding of Wyeth, which involved a failure-to-warn claim, to the design-defect claim at issue in the case under consideration. In so doing, the court noted that in a later decision, the Supreme Court had created an exception to Wyeth for failure-to-warn claims against generic drug manufacturers, on the theory that Congress wanted to reduce medical costs by spurring the manufacture and marketing of generic drugs and that requiring a generic drug manufacturer to pay damages under state law would suppress the development of such drugs, given that a generic drug manufacturer cannot alter the approved labeling of the brand-name drug. The Bartlett defendant argued that this exception should also apply to design-defect claims involving generic drugs because the manufacturer of such a drug similarly cannot alter the composition of the brand-name drug. The court observed, however, that while the defendant could not legally make sulindac with another composition, it could choose not to manufacture and sell the drug at all. According to the court, the FDCA might permit States to tell the defendant that it should not be manufacturing the drug if the applicable risk-benefit analysis weighs against making and selling the drug. Although it noted that such an analysis is second-guessing the FDA, the court returned to the fact that Wyeth resolved the conflict against general preemption. On balance, the court of appeals concluded that the Wyeth Court had adopted a general, no-preemption stance, and said that it is up to the Supreme Court to decide whether the exception to the absence of preemption is to be extended to design-defect claims involving generic drugs.
The court of appeals further concluded that the district court did not commit plain error in instructing the jury that it could consider the FDA's requirements for drug labels in determining whether the warning on the allegedly defective sulindac mitigated the drug's unreasonably dangerous condition. The court also held that the district court did not plainly err in failing to instruct the jury that the manufacturer could not legally change the drug's label. The court noted that the jury instructions made clear that the label was relevant to the design-defect claim since, although unalterable by the defendant, the label's arguable inadequacies put limits on the extent to which the drug's dangerousness was offset by adequate warnings.
As to the issue of damages, which figured so prominently in the case, the court recounted the plaintiff's "truly horrific" injuries in affirming the largest damages award in New Hampshire history. The plaintiff's burn surgeon described her time in treatment as "hell on earth." 2012 WL 1522004, at *10. Moreover, the permanent damage she suffered was severe. In light of these facts, the court found that the outcome of the case was "not surprising" or, with respect to sulindac, "patently alarming." Id. The court noted that sulindac is a recognized and leading cause of SJS/TEN and that the drug carries other risks as well. In light of the evidence, the jury's award of $16.5 million for pain, suffering, and loss of enjoyment of life was not excessive.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently decided a case involving the issue of federal preemption of a state products liability statute requiring a plaintiff in a failure-to-warn case against a drug manufacturer to assert that the manufacturer withheld material information from the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") or misrepresented such information to the agency. See Lofton v. McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharms., No. 10-10956, 2012 WL 579772 (5th Cir. Feb. 22, 2012). The family of a man who died of a severe autoimmune allergic reaction after taking the defendant's over-the-counter drug, Motrin, brought an action against the manufacturer, alleging that the defendant had failed to warn consumers about the risk of such severe autoimmune reactions to the drug. The plaintiffs sued under Texas state law, alleging negligence and strict products liability.
The court of appeals noted that under Texas statutory law, there is a rebuttable presumption that a drug manufacturer is not liable for failing to warn about the risks of its product if the FDA has approved the warnings or information furnished in the sale of the drug. The Texas statute allows a plaintiff to rebut this presumption by establishing that the manufacturer withheld from, or misrepresented to, the FDA required information material and relevant to the performance of the product and that the manufacturer's act was causally related to the plaintiff's injury. The defendant manufacturer raised the Texas statutory presumption of nonliability as an affirmative defense, and the district court determined that the prerequisites to the presumption were satisfied because the manufacturer had complied with all FDA requirements governing the labels of the drug. The district court then held that the rebuttal portion of the statute was preempted by federal law. The court concluded that the Supreme Court's decision in Buckman Co. v. Plaintiffs' Legal Committee, 531 U.S. 341 (2001), extended preemption to fraud-on-the-FDA claims involving drugs, and noted that the FDA had rejected a 2005 Citizen's Petition requesting that the FDA strengthen labeling requirements for the defendant's drug. Because the plaintiffs were asking the court to reach a conclusion opposite to that reached by the FDA, the district court determined that the Texas rebuttal statute that potentially allowed such claims was preempted.
February 21, 2012
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently ruled that some state law claims by a patient who had allegedly received a defective hip replacement survived federal preemption. See Bass v. Stryker Corp., No. 11-10076, 2012 WL 266985 (5th Cir. Jan. 31, 2012). The plaintiff sued the company that had designed, manufactured, and marketed a hip prosthesis that malfunctioned after it was surgically implanted into the plaintiff's body. He brought his action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas under various theories, including strict products liability, negligence, breach of warranty, and violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The defendant moved to dismiss, arguing that all of the plaintiff's claims were preempted under Medical Device Amendments ("MDA"), 21 U.S.C. § 360k(a), to the Food, Drug & Cosmetics Act ("FDCA"). The defendant asserted that the state law claims were preempted in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's interpretation of the MDA's preemptive reach in Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc., 552 U.S. 312 (2008). The district court granted the manufacturer's motion to dismiss on the basis of preemption. The Fifth Circuit reversed in part, concluding that certain of the plaintiff's causes of action survived MDA preemption.
The court of appeals first noted that a state tort claim to recover for injuries allegedly caused by a medical device is preempted if (1) the federal government has established requirements applicable to the device, and (2) the claims are based on state law requirements that are different from or in addition to the federal requirements and that relate to safety and effectiveness. Devices that are approved through the premarket approval ("PMA") process of the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") automatically satisfy the federal-requirements prong of MDA preemption. The court of appeals found that the district court had correctly determined that the hip replacement device at issue was subject to the PMA process and, for that reason, satisfied the federal-requirements element of preemption.
The court then noted, however, that the preemption provision of the MDA does not prevent a State from providing a damages remedy for claims grounded upon violation of the FDA regulations pertaining to a medical device. According to the court, state duties in such a case are parallel to, rather than in addition to, the federal requirements. In order to plead a valid parallel claim beyond the reach of MDA preemption, a plaintiff's allegations must be plausible within the meaning of the rules governing a motion to dismiss. The court concluded that the plaintiff had sufficiently pleaded parallel claims insofar as his claims were based upon manufacturing defects resulting from a violation of the FDA regulations. The court noted that the plaintiff had alleged that his injury had been caused by the hip replacement's failure to attach to his bone because the component at issue had been adulterated in violation of specific FDA regulations. The court explained that if a plaintiff pleads that a manufacturer of a Class III Medical Device, which are all subject to the PMA process, failed to comply with either the specific processes and procedures approved by the FDA or the Current Good Manufacturing Practices promulgated by the FDA and that such failure was the cause of the plaintiff's harm, then the plaintiff has pleaded a sufficient parallel claim for purposes of MDA preemption.
In light of this analysis, the court concluded that the only strict liability claims that survived MDA preemption were the plaintiff's manufacturing defect claims premised on the defendant's alleged violations of FDA regulations and requirements. The plaintiff's warning claims, by contrast, imposed a requirement in addition to those approved by the FDA, i.e., a duty to warn consumers if a device is adulterated. For the same reason, the court held that the MDA preempted the plaintiff's negligence causes of action to the extent that they were premised upon a failure to warn. However, insofar as the plaintiff alleged negligence in manufacturing the device, such allegations constituted parallel claims that did not impose requirements different from or additional to those imposed by the FDA, and, for that reason, they survived preemption.
As to the plaintiff's cause of action for breach of implied warranty, the court explained that such a claim is not preempted if a plaintiff alleges that the device manufacturer violated federal requirements and the plaintiff can demonstrate a causal nexus between that violation and the breach of implied warranty. If, however, a plaintiff alleges that the defendant breached the implied warranty despite its compliance with FDA requirements, then the claim is preempted by the MDA.
The court employed a similar analysis with respect to the plaintiff's cause of action under the state Deceptive Trade Practices Act. According to the court, the MDA preempted the plaintiff's cause of action to the extent that the plaintiff's claims relied upon misrepresentations by the defendant, in that such a cause of action is essentially one for a failure to warn, which is preempted by the FDA warning requirements. However, to the extent that the claim was based on a breach of the implied warranty, it would be permitted to proceed to the extent that it was founded upon violations of the federal requirements.
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The New York Court of Appeals recently addressed the issue of federal preemption in a case brought by bus passengers alleging that the bus in which they had been riding was defective because it did not have passenger seatbelts. See Doomes v. Best Transit Corp., N.Y. Slip Op. 07256, 2011 WL 4916002 (N.Y. Oct. 18, 2011) (subject to revision before publication). The plaintiffs were injured when the bus veered across the highway and rolled over several times after the driver fell asleep and lost control of the vehicle. The passengers brought a products liability action against the manufacturer who had completed the construction of the bus, asserting that the defendant had breached the warranty of fitness for ordinary purposes by failing to install passenger seatbelts in the bus. The bus had a seatbelt for the driver, as required by the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards ("FMVSS"). The FMVSS do not, however, require passenger seatbelts in a bus. The manufacturer appealed a verdict in the plaintiffs' favor, arguing that the state law claims grounded upon the absence of passenger seatbelts were preempted by the federal regulations. The appellate division reversed the judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, and the court of appeals granted the plaintiffs leave to appeal. The court of appeals reversed the judgment of the appellate division on the question of preemption.
The court of appeals noted that state tort claims may be preempted by federal law by either express or implied preemption. As to express preemption, the court noted that preemptive intent is discerned from the plain language of a statute. Implied preemption, by contrast, may be found either when the federal legislation is so comprehensive in scope that it is inferable that Congress wished to fully occupy the field of its subject matter, or when state law conflicts with the federal law. Such a conflict may be found (1) when it is impossible for a private party to comply with both state and federal requirements, or (2) when state law stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress. The court found that the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act ("the Act"), under which the FMVSS were preempted, did not expressly preempt state products liability law, because the Act's saving clause, in conjunction with the statute's preemptive provision, permitted the maintenance of common-law claims.
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Athens Academy 10, Our Lady of Mercy 7: Quarterback Austin Schulte threw a 74-yard touchdown to Eric Williams late in the fourth quarter to boost host Athens Academy over the Bobcats. Schulte completed 11-of-17 passes for 164 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. One interception was returned 18 yards for a touchdown.
Darlington 34, King's Ridge Christian 17: A battle of the Tigers started with Darlington taking a 21-3 halftime lead. King's Ridge attempted a comeback in the second half, as running back Penny Hart scored a 30-yard touchdown. Quarterback Bailey Miller added a 1-yard score, but it would not be enough to defeat visiting Darlington.
First Presbyterian 24, Pace Academy 20: The visiting Vikings intercepted two passes in the final period and converted both into touchdowns to overcome a 20-10 deficit. Quarterback Brooks Stroud hit receiver Scott McCormick for a 15-yard score to give the Vikings the winning margin. Knights quarterback Kevin Johnson had three touchdown passes on 17-of-24 passes for 234 yards.
Walker 21, Mt. Zion-Carroll 14: Cameron Bloebaum scored on a 1-yard quarterback sneak with eight minutes remaining to break a 14-14 tie and help Walker past visiting Mt. Zion-Carroll. The Wolverines were led by Evan Kasian, who rushed 21 times for 184 yards and two touchdowns including a 37-yard scoring jaunt in the first quarter. Patrick McPherson gained 61 yards on 11 carries for Walker.
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Sounds like it was a great game between OLM & Athens Academy ( 10-7 ) ….. maybe OLM will regroup this week against Pace …. congrats to Athens Academy beating a very soild team.
September 24th, 2012
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Congrats to Irwin Co and their big win over Wilkinson Co!
September 24th, 2012
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In the King's Ridge v Darlington game, the 'run' for Penny Hart was actually a pass from Bailey Miller to Penny Hart for the 36 yard score. And Miller went 21/31 for 239 yards, and 2 TDs with 2 INTs for the game.


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Mulshi Dam
Mulshi Dam
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Sensational Slow-Cooker Salsa Chicken With Pasta
My love affair with my slow cooker, or crock pot if you will, has continued to grow since I first bought one last year. I still marvel out how I managed to get dinner on the table for all of those years without one. It's just so easy, and there are so many ways to use it. This crock pot chicken salsa is a great way to do so.
From the blog Whisk and a Prayer, it combines just a few ingredients to make a sensational meal. Served over some whole wheat pasta with a little cheese and sour cream on top, it's a zesty, savory dish perfect for any night of the week. I also like the mixture rolled up in tortillas. The best part is you don't even have to defrost the chicken breasts -- you just put them in frozen. Talk about easy.
Crock pot Salsa Chicken with Whole Wheat Penne Pasta
3 good sized chicken breasts, frozen
1 jar of your favorite low-sodium salsa (try and select the lowest sodium salsa you can find or else your chicken will turn out too salty!)
1 lb whole wheat penne pasta
Monterrey jack cheese (shredded)
Sour cream
Coat inside of crock pot with non-stick cooking spray.
Place frozen chicken breasts in crock pot. Pour one jar of salsa over chicken breasts.
Place lid on cooker and set on low.
Cover and allow chicken to cook for 8-10 hours.
After chicken is completely cooked, boil pasta until tender.
Remove chicken from crock pot and shred with two forks.
Toss pasta with chicken and left over cooking liquid from the crock pot.
Sprinkle with cheese and spoon on a dollop of sour cream if desired.
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JAFEFebruary 7, 2012 at 11:22 AM
This sounds wonderful. I think a few pieces of bacon crumbled in here would make this perfect.
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EBee12February 7, 2012 at 3:20 PM
I make this all the time, but I serve it with rice, and I throw in an onion and two cans of beans (any kind of beans). It's a family favorite (and sooooooooo easy to throw together.)
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jessicasmom1February 9, 2012 at 9:15 AM
this sounds good thanks
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WhitneyFebruary 9, 2012 at 10:15 AMI made this last night and it was incredible. I added a half cup of water and some garlic as well.
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jessicasmom1February 25, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Thanks Whitney for your review
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copperswifeyFebruary 26, 2012 at 7:31 PM
Looks good, thanks! :)