Kinser v. Ciba-Geigy Corp.

ELR Citation: ELR 21120
No(s). C92-0114-BG(H) (W.D. Ky. Nov 4, 1993)

The court holds that Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) §24 preempts a farmer's state common-law failure to warn claims against a herbicide manufacturer. After the farmer treated weeds with the manufacturer's FIFRA-registered herbicide, pests infesting the weeds transmitted...