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JOHNSON v. AMERICAN STANDARD, INC.

No. B179206.

34 Cal.Rptr.3d 863 (2005)

William Keith JOHNSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. AMERICAN STANDARD, INC., Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Five.

October 17, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Metzger Law Group, Gregory A. Coolidge, Long Beach, and Peter F. Klein for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Munger, Tolles & Olson, Jeffrey L. Bleich, San Francisco, Kathleen M. McDowell, Los Angeles, and Blanca F. Young, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent.

ARMSTRONG, J.

In this products liability case, defendant and respondent American Standard moved for summary judgment in part based on the legal principle which other jurisdictions have termed the sophisticated user doctrine. (See, e.g., Crook v. Kaneb Pipe Line Operating Partnership, L.P. (8th Cir.2000) 231 F.3d 1098, 1102; Strong v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours Co., Inc. (8th Cir.1981) 667 F.2d 682

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