Court Opinion

ID: 6014179
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 11:08:34.177954+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:50:28.844655
License: Public Domain

*488The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 USC § 136 et seq.) expressly preempted State common-law causes of action which seek to recover damages for injuries allegedly arising as a result of inadequate warning labels on a product (see, Warner v American Flouride Corp., 204 AD2d 1, 3, 13). Therefore, dismissal of the plaintiffs’ complaint was appropriate. Contrary to the plaintiffs’ contention, the opinion in Warner v American Flouride Corp. (supra) is not inconsistent with the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in Medtronic, Inc. v Lohr (518 US 470).
Furthermore, while leave to amend a pleading "shall be freely given upon such terms as may be just” (CPLR 3025 [b]), the decision to grant or deny leave to amend a pleading is within the court’s discretion (see, Mayers v D’Agostino, 58 NY2d 696), and the exercise of such discretion will not be lightly disturbed (see, Beuschel v Malm, 114 AD2d 569). On this record, it was not an improvident exercise of discretion for the court to deny leave to amend the complaint.
The plaintiffs’ remaining contention is without merit. O’Brien, J. P., Goldstein, McGinity and Luciano, JJ., concur.