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281 F3d 185 Swope | OpenJurist
281 F. 3d 185 - Swope
281 F3d 185 Swope
Lawrence Charles Billeaud (argued), Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
498 U.S. 269, 111 S.Ct. 648, 112 L.Ed.2d 743 (1991)
Id. at 276, 111 S.Ct. 648.
See Federal Sav. & Loan Ins. Co. v. Cribbs, 918 F.2d 557 (5th Cir.1990) (noting abrogation by Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. General Elec. Co., 446 U.S. 1, 10, 100 S.Ct. 1460, 64 L.Ed.2d 1 (1980)).
397 So.2d 475, 480 (La.1981)
512 So.2d 389, 391 (La.1987)
Id. (citing Saucier v. Belgard, 445 So.2d 191 (La.Ct.App.3d Cir.1984); England v. S & M Foods, Inc., 511 So.2d 1313 (La.Ct.App.2d Cir.1987); Prosser, supra note 34, § 9, at 40 (footnotes omitted)). See also Fricke v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 571 So.2d 130 (La.1990)(implicitly recognizing an action for battery resulting from an employer's intentional exposure of an employee to harmful gases); Thorning v. Shell Oil Co., 522 So.2d 558, 559 (La.1988) (reversing summary judgment against an employee who introduced evidence that an employer intentionally injured him by releasing dangerous chemicals with full knowledge of the damaging effect of such chemicals); Belgard v. Am. Freightways, Inc., 755 So.2d 982, 984 (La.Ct.App.3d Cir.1999) (reversing summary judgment in favor of an employer when an employee suffered debilitating injuries after being ordered to move a trailer soaked with a toxic liquid ammonium hydroxate solution); Quick v. Myers Welding & Fabricating, 649 So.2d 999, 1003 (La.Ct.App.3d Cir.1994) (reversing summary judgment in favor of an employer whose employee was burned after pure oxygen was deliberately introduced into a tank in which he was welding); Trahan v. Trans-Louisiana Gas Co. Inc., 618 So.2d 30, 31 (La.Ct.App.3d Cir.1993) (reversing an exception of no cause of action because an employee's "neuro-toxic" injuries were substantially certain to follow from his exposure to excessive levels of mercaptan); Major v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., 506 So.2d 583, 584 (La.Ct.App.4th Cir.1987) (reversing summary judgment in favor of an employer who ordered an employee to work on the "hot rollers" after being informed that the plaintiff could not work around chemicals)
Id. at 327, 106 S.Ct. 2548.
10A Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller & Mary Kay Kane,Federal Practice and Procedure § 2727, at 490 (3d ed.1998) (citing First Nat. Bank v. Cities Serv. Co., 391 U.S. 253, 288-89, 88 S.Ct. 1575, 20 L.Ed.2d 569 (1968)("It is true that the issue of material fact required by Rule 56(c) to be present to entitle a party to proceed to trial is not required to be resolved conclusively in favor of the party asserting its existence; rather, all that is required is that sufficient evidence supporting the claimed factual dispute be shown to require a jury or judge to resolve the parties' differing versions of the truth at trial.")).
Fricke v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 571 So.2d 130, 132 (La.1990); Caudle v. Betts, 512 So.2d 389, 391-92 (La.1987); Restatement (Second) of Torts § 16 (1965).
Riley Stoker Corp. v. Fid. & Guar. Ins. Underwriters, Inc., 26 F.3d 581, 591 (5th Cir. 1994); Bunge Corp. v. GATX Corp., 557 So.2d 1376, 1381 (La.1990); Smith, III v. Arcadian Corp., 657 So.2d 464, 469 (La.Ct.App.3d Cir. 1995); Jones v. Crane, 653 So.2d 822, 827 (La.Ct.App.2d Cir.1995); DeWoody v. Citgo Petroleum Corp., 604 So.2d 92, 99 (La.Ct. App.3d Cir.1992); Tenneco Oil Co. v. Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., 495 So.2d 1317, 1322 (La.Ct.App. 4th Cir.1986); Summerfield v. Harnischfeger Indus., Inc., No. Civ. A. 97-3683, 1998 WL 726080, at * 2 (E.D.La. Oct. 13, 1998).
See, e.g., Harris v. Black Clawson Co., 961 F.2d 547, 553 (5th Cir.1992)(Obligor Black Clawson designed and participated in the construction and installation of a hydrapulper, a reinforced concrete tub measuring twelve by eighteen feet, inside the obligee's forest products plant. The court concluded that the obligor's obligation was to construct the hydrapulper, not merely to sell it to the obligee. "[I]t is simply not possible that such a large structure could be constructed elsewhere and shipped to the site for installation.... [I]t cannot be said that the installation provision of the contract for the design and installation of the tub was merely incidental to the tub's sale."); KSLA-TV, Inc. v. Radio Corp., 501 F.Supp. 891, 896 (W.D.La. 1980), aff'd and adopted by, 693 F.2d 544 (5th Cir.1982)(KSLA-TV contracted with RCA to design, fabricate, and install a television antenna tower. Using the fundamental obligation test supplemented by a balancing of economic factors the court determined that the contract involved primarily an obligation to do, "primarily the furnishing of labor and the contractor's skill in the performance of the job."); Rasmussen v. Cashio Concrete Corp., 484 So.2d 777, 778 (La.Ct.App. 1st Cir.1986)(Obligor furnished and installed a 5.58 ton home sewer treatment plant. The court concluded that the primary object of the agreement was the sale of a workable sewer treatment plant; the installing of the unit was secondary, ancillary, to the sale.); Papa v. Louisiana Awning Co., 131 So.2d 114, 117 (La.Ct.App.2d Cir.1961)(The obligor contracted to assume two obligations: to deliver or transfer to the obligee a patio cover and to install and attach it to the obligee's house. The court found that the obligation to do was fundamental.).
Conmaco, Inc. v. S. Ocean Corp., 581 So.2d 365, 368 (La.Ct.App. 4th Cir.1991)(citing Litvinoff I, § 158 at 291).
604 So.2d 92, 98 (La.Ct.App.3d Cir.1992)
410 So.2d 355, 355-56 (La.Ct.App. 4th Cir. 1982)
653 So.2d 822, 827 (La.Ct.App.2d Cir. 1995)
Id. § 9:2800.57(B)(2); see also Davis v. Avondale Industries, Inc., 975 F.2d 169, 172-73 (5th Cir.1992)(citing LPLA § 9: 2800.57(B)(2) as statutory authority for an Erie guess "that Louisiana courts would likely hold that in a setting such as this the product manufacturer owes no duty to the employee of a purchaser if the manufacturer provides an adequate warning of any inherent dangers to the purchaser or if the purchaser has knowledge of those dangers and the duty to warn its employees thereof.") (emphasis omitted). Subsequent to the enactment of the LPLA and this court's decision in Davis one Louisiana intermediate appellate court has expressed uncertainty as to whether the LPLA perpetuates a sophisticated purchaser or user defense. Black v. Gorman-Rupp, 655 So.2d 717, 722 (La.Ct.App. 4th Cir.1995) ("The LPLA does not explicitly address this `sophisticated user' concept, but instead speaks of `the ordinary user or handler of the product.' At the present time, we need not decide ... the issue of whether the `sophisticated user' defense is carried forward under the LPLA....") (citations omitted).
648 So.2d 331, 337 (La.1995)
451 So.2d 1211 (La.Ct.App. 4th Cir.1984)