CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois only partially dismissed a putative class action against the maker of a computer duster product; a family sued the firm after a man died just months after he became addicted to inhaling its duster. The family plausibly argued that the bitterant added to the duster is ineffective to many people, and that the amount of the bitterant is insufficiently high to deter abusive use of the duster. The family’s failure-to-warn claim is tossed because the does warn against inhaling the gas.
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