Mealey's (May 13, 2016, 1:20 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Under California law, the sophisticated user doctrine focuses on the end user’s knowledge of a danger, not an intermediary’s knowledge, a federal judge said May 10 while also rejecting defendants’ government contractor defense (Victoria Lund, et al. v. Crane Co., et al., No. 13-2776, C.D. Calif.; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 61847)....