Publication Date: 2013-01-10
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Date Filed: 2013-01-10
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Raner C. Collins, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge; Sidney R. Thomas, Barry G. Silverman, Susan P. Graber, M. Margaret McKeown, William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Richard R. Clifton, N. Randy Smith, and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas G. Cotter, Haralson Miller Pitt Feldman & McAnally, PLC, Tucson, Arizona, for Appellants.
for defendant: Michael Kevin Brown, Lisa Marie Baird, Reed Smith, LLP, Los Angeles, California; Timothy James Casey, Schmitt, Schneck, Smyth & Herrod PC, Phoenix, Arizona, for Appellee.
Elizabeth Jean Erwin, Office of the Washington Attorney General, Seattle, Washington; Steve Bullock, Office of the Montana Attorney General, Helena, Montana; Lawrence Garth Wasden, Office of the Idaho Attorney General, Boise, Idaho; Mary-Christine Sungaila, Snell & Wilmer LLP, Costa Mesa, California; Kelly Harrison Dove, Snell & Wilmer LLP, Las Vegas, Nevada; Jessica E. Yates, Snell & Wilmer LLP, Denver, Colorado; Mary Massaron Ross, Plunkett Cooney, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Alan Jay Lazarus and Sally F. White, Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, San Francisco, California; Hugh F. Young, Jr., Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., Reston, Virginia, for amici curiae.
Case Number: No. 10-17755
Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 365RICHARD STENGEL; MARY LOU STENGEL, Plaintiffs-Appellants,v.MEDTRONIC INCORPORATED,