Bruce Nye at Cal Biz Lit concludes his liveblogging of a Defense Research Institute West Coast conference by summarizing several more sessions, including one on the sophisticated user defense, and another in which Dean Erwin Chemerinsky discussed pre-emption at the Supreme Court; Nye concludes with some thoughts about the distinctiveness of California product liability and toxics law. Earlier here.
More liveblogging of DRI conference
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