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Boyle Vs. United Technologies Corp.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 27, 1988

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  5. Westfall Vs. Erwin US Supreme Court · Jan 13, 1988
  6. WheeldIn Vs. Wheeler US Supreme Court · Jun 03, 1963
  7. Boyle v. United
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  8. Technologies Corp. - 487 U.S. 500 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Boyle v. United
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  9. Technologies Corp., 487 U.S. 500 (1988) Boyle v. United
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  10. a significant Page 487 U. S. 501 conflict is present, the Court of Appeals relied on the rationale of Feres v. United
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  11. which the court had recognized the same day in Tozer v. LTV
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  12. to find federal preemption of state law in the absence of either a clear statutory prescription, see, e.g., Jones v. Rath
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  13. Rice v. Santa
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  14. S. 230 (1947), or a direct conflict between federal and state law, see, e.g., Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul
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  15. Texas Industries, Inc. v. Radcliff
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  16. United States v. Kimbell
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  17. Banco Nacional v. Sabbatino
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  18. Clearfield Trust Co. v. United
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  19. D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. FDIC
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  20. and rights of the United States under its contracts are governed exclusively by federal law. See, e.g., United States v. Little
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  21. Priebe & Sons, Inc. v. United
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  22. National Metropolitan Bank v. United
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  23. allow design defect suits only by the purchaser and those in privity with the seller. See General Bronze Corp. v. Kostopulos
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  24. duty. We have held in many contexts that the scope of that liability is controlled by federal law. See, e.g., Westfall v. Erwin
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  25. Yaselli v. Goff
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  26. Bank of America Nat. Trust & Sav. Assn. v. Parnell
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  27. U. S. 29 , 352 U. S. 33 (1956), federal law does not govern. Thus, for example, in Miree v. DeKalb
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  28. See also Wallis v. Pan
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  29. Claims Act (FTCA) does not cover injuries to Armed Services personnel in the course of military service. See Feres v. United
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  30. Tozer, 792 F.2d at 408. Other courts upholding the defense have embraced similar reasoning. See, e.g., Bynum v. FMC
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  31. McKay v. Rockwell
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  32. of these judgments, see United States v. Varig
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  33. scope of displacement adopted by the Fourth Circuit here, which is also that adopted by the Ninth Circuit, see McKay v. Rockwell
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  34. of the Government contractor defense, urged upon us by petitioner, which was adopted by the Eleventh Circuit in Shaw v. Grumman
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  35. jury instructions that expressed the defense differently, and in a fashion that would support a verdict. See St. Louis v. Praprotnik
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  36. Ebker v. Tan
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  37. United States v. Little
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  38. United States v. Kimbell
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  39. Even before our landmark decision in Clearfield Trust Co. v. United
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  40. we would be duty-bound to implement their will, whether or not we approved. United States v. Johnson
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  41. reverse the Court of Appeals and reinstate petitioner's jury award. I Before our decision in Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins
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  42. the state law that would ordinarily govern with their own rules of federal common law. See, e.g., United States v. Standard
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  43. of diversity jurisdiction to federal courts is itself authority to fashion rules of substantive law. See United States v. Little
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  44. Puerto Rico Dept. of Consumer Affairs v. Isla
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  45. instances. Wheeldin v. Wheeler
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  46. Milwaukee v. Illinois
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  47. U.S. Supreme Court Boyle v. United
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  48. of Feres v. United
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  49. Tozer v. LTV
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  50. Jones v. Rath
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