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In some cases, those standards are integrated into the legislation governing them. For example, for pressure vessels, many jurisdictions have government inspectors and those vessels have to be registered with the same government in order to be used in service. Complete inspections of weld seams.
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That sort of thing doesn't happen often in engineering law, if at all.
Most litigations involve contracts and all that they entail, and there's all sorts of literature available on the subject. Usually, these cases involve interpretation of the contract, the degrees of responsibility of the parties involved, and whether the terms and conditions of the contract had been met.
Once in a while, though, one hears of a tort dispute where a third party sues a firm or engineer for damages. One of the most famous tort cases, though not involving an engineer as such, is Donoghue vs. Stephenson. It's frequently used as an example of how an engineer's duty to maintain the public welfare can extend to parties with whom the engineer has never dealt with directly, such as through product liability.
In Donoghue vs. Stephenson, the plaintiff drank a bottle of ginger beer, only to find, apparently, a dead snail inside. This case set a precedent with regards to quality control of goods produced by a manufacturer.
