DUVALL v. BRISTOL-MYERS-SQUIBB CO.

No. 94-1520.

65 F.3d 392 (1995)

Eugene DUVALL; Patricia Sue Duvall, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BRISTOL-MYERS-SQUIBB COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation; Medical Engineering Corporation, a/k/a Surgitek/Medical Engineering Corporation, Defendants-Appellees. Food & Drug Administration, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 25, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Gary Lester Wilson, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Minneapolis, MN, for appellants. William James Murphy, Murphy & Shaffer, Baltimore, MD, for appellees. ON BRIEF: Bruce Finzen, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, Minneapolis, MN; David B. Shapiro, Baltimore, MD; Lewis J. Saul, Bethesda, MD, for appellants. Robert T. Shaffer, III, Murphy & Shaffer, Baltimore, MD; John F. Brenner, McCarter & English, Newark, NJ, for appellees.

Before WIDENER and WILKINS, Circuit Judges, and MICHAEL, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


Affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part by published opinion. Judge WILKINS wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Judge MICHAEL joined.

OPINION

WILKINS, Circuit Judge:

Eugene Duvall appeals a decision of the district court granting summary judgment to Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (Bristol-Myers)1 on the basis that Duvall's claims are preempted by 21 U.S.C.A. § 360k (West Supp.1995), enacted as...

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