The ionisation smoke detector was found to be defectively designed, and in 2006 a jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York decided that First Alert and its parent company, BRK Brands, was liable for millions of dollars in damages.
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If the same rule were to prevail in criminal, which holds in civil proceedings that a case defectively stated may be aided by a verdict then a court might presume, after verdict, that the indictment was supported by proof of criminal or unlawful means to effect the object.
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Last month, a jury found in favor of Beretta U . S . A . Corp ., sued by Griffin and Lynn Dix who claimed their 15-year-old son, Kenzo, accidentally was shot and killed by a teenage friend because the handgun was defectively designed.
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According to the statement, the lawsuit, which was filed in the US state of Illinois, states that at the time the accident aircraft left the control of defendant Airbus, it was defectively and unreasonably dangerous, and names Honeywell International, Motorola Inc and other suppliers along with Airbus as defendants.
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But, unlike the December ruling from a federal judge in Virginia, Vinson ruled that because there was no severability clause in the original legislation, the entire law must be declared void; The act, like a defectively designed watch, needs to be redesigned and reconstructed by the watchmaker , he wrote in the decision.
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The copy of Captain Tyler's report sent to the C & W was accompanied by the comment " My Lords direct me to observe, that it appears from this report that the accident in question was entirely due to the employment of a defectively-constructed engine upon a bad road, and that therefore serious blame is to be attributed to those in whom the management of the railway is vested"
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Shine Lawyers commenced an Australian class action in the Federal Court of Australia on September 27, 2011, against DePuy International Pty Ltd and Johnson and Johnson Medical Pty Ltd . Both lawsuits claim that the DePuy ASR hip replacement was defectively designed, that DePuy knew that there were problems with the Northern District of Ohio and, with the consent of that court, assigned to the Honorable David A . Katz for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings ."
