Court Opinion

ID: 9492433
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:41:12.181774+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:55:18.100391
License: Public Domain

HOEVELER, District Judge,
Concurring:
I concur in the very well developed opinion of Judge Roth. I am, however, constrained to offer an observation which may bear the fruit of protection from further similar disasters. The precedential value of our decision, as well as that of the Tenth Circuit in Gaines-Tabb v. ICI Explosives, USA Inc., 160 F.3d 613 (10th Cir.1998), rests largely on a slender and temporal reed: lack of foreseeability of the intervening criminal act. Whether experience and failure to use available safeguards will, in time, create new legal duties on the part of the manufacturer remains to be seen. We live in a society in which the disgruntled more and more resort to violence. Appel-lees’ products, so easily convertible to dangerous qualities, need not — with proper treatment — become a part of that violence.