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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.