The California Supreme Court has joined 30 other states with a ruling that manufacturers do not need to put a warning on a product employed by a sophisticated user who should know its dangers.

Defense attorneys for the business community praised the decision, which came in the case of a trained heating and ventilation worker exposed to phosgene gas who suffered pulmonary fibrosis.

"A home run," said M.C. Sungaila, with the firm of Horvitz Levy, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief for the U.S Chamber of Commerce and five manufacturing firms.

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