Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Virtual Maintenance, Inc. v. Prime Computer, Inc.
Virtual Maint., Inc. v. Prime Comput., Inc., 506 U.S. 910 (1992)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1992-10-13
- Topic
- bankruptcy
How later courts describe this case
- remanding Arkansas-Platte & Gulf Partnership v. Van Waters & Rogers, Inc., 959 F.2d 158 (10th Cir.1992) ("Arkansas-Platte I”)
- the burden is on the defendants to show that state tort claims based on failure to warn are preempted by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Ro-denticide Act
- “A tying arrangement clearly exists here because the large price differential between the software support alone and the software/hardware maintenance package induces all rational buyers of Prime’s software support to accept its hardware maintenance”
- vacating and remanding Arkansas-Platte & Gulf Partnership I
Citator
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 38 opinions
C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari granted, judgment vacated, and case remanded for further consideration in light of Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services., Inc., 504 U. S. 451 (1992).