6:04-CV-0297 (GHL) (N.D.N.Y. Mar. 22, 2007) Cited 46 times 1 Legal Analyses
In Topliff v. Wal-Mart Stores E. LP, No. 6:04-CV-0297 (GHL), 2007 WL 911891 (N.D.N.Y. Mar. 22, 2007) (Lowe, MJ), the court explained that, "[a]s stated in Section 388 and 401 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts, where a retailer has sold a dangerous product without providing an adequate warning of that danger, and that product has injured a user, the retailer may be liable to the user under a 'failure to warn' theory of liability if the retailer knew or had reason to know that the product was dangerous, or was likely to be dangerous, when used."