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I’d like to issue a correction regarding last week’s essay. I wrote that strict liability can attach to product manufacturers regardless of whether the issue with the product is a “manufacturing” or “design” defect. This was true for several decades, but the 1998 Third Restatement of Torts for products liability (not official law—instead guidance for judges published by the American Law Institute—but often effectively treated as statute) changed liability for design defects to a “risk-utility” framework, more like negligence rather than strict liability. This error is ultimately downstream…
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