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083417P.pdf 08/17/2009 D.G. and G. Inc. v. FlexSol Packaging Corp.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 08-3417
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Hansen and Bye, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - torts. Plaintiff had used the packing bags in question since
2001, and it knew or reasonably could be expected to know of the
specific dangers of bagging cotton with excess moisture in the bags; as a
result, the district court did not err in granting defendant's motion for
summary judgment on plaintiff's strict liability failure-to-warn claim;
plaintiff failed to demonstrate it put the bags to a reasonably anticipated
use, and the district court did not err in granting defendant summary
judgment of plaintiff's strict liability defective-product claim; because
plaintiff did not establish a reasonably anticipated use, its negligence and
implied warranty claims were properly dismissed; subsequent verification
of an unsworn expert's report allows the court to consider the report on a
motion for summary judgment, and the district court did not abuse its
discretion in considering the cured documents; no error in excluding
plaintiff's expert's report where he failed to follow established methods
for conducting water vapor transmission tests.