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163684P.pdf 02/05/2018 Apex Oil Company, Inc. v. Jones Stephens Corp.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-3684
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Benton and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Products liability. Plaintiff failed to present sufficient
evidence to show that the toilet supply line manufactured by defendant was
unreasonably dangerous under Arkansas law, and the court properly
dismissed plaintiff's strict liability claim; with respect to plaintiff's
general negligence theory, plaintiff failed to present evidence that at
the time in question defendant should have know that there was a link
between voids in a plastic coupling nut and structural failure of the
part; there was insufficient evidence that the damage plaintiff incurred
was the result of defendant's alleged deceptive trade practice in labeling
the part as "leak proof" as plaintiff failed to show it knew about the
label before the incident or that it relied upon the label in taking some
action that caused the damage; 2017 amendment to an Arkansas statute -
Ark. Code Ann. Section 4-88-113(f)(1)(A) (2017) - did not change the
result.