# Walker v. Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc

> Michigan Court of Appeals · September 13, 1996 · 217 Mich. App. 705

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9688081

## Case

- **Full name:** Walker v. Johnson & Johnson Vision Products, Inc.
- **Court:** Michigan Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** September 13, 1996
- **Citations:** 217 Mich. App. 705; 552 N.W.2d 679
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Griffin
- **Judges:** Murphy, Griffin
- **Cited by:** 19 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that “[s]tate common law is a law of general applicability”

## Opinion text

Griffin, J.
(concurring). I concur in the result. In my view, Medtronic, Inc v Lohr, 518 US _ ; 116 S Ct *722 2240 ; 135 L Ed 2d 700 (1996), is controlling. The rationale of Medtronic resolves the present issue whether 21 USC 360k(a) preempts state tort claims of breach of implied warranty, negligent design, and failure to warn arising from the use of medical devices that were subjected to the premarket approval process. For the most part, the majority’s analysis is moot in light of Medtronic, supra.

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