Legal Opinion
Gills v. Ford Motor Co.
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
Decided September 1, 1993No. Action C91-0256-P(H)PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
HEYBURN, District Judge.
Defendant’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment requires this Court to decide whether federal law preempts a Kentucky common law claim seeking damages for Defendant’s failure to install airbags in a 1988 automobile. The excellent briefs on both sides made it no less difficult for the Court to bring clarity to this well trod yet still murky area of the law. In any event, the Court can now verify first hand the “difficulty lower courts will encounter in attempting to implement the [Cipollone ] decision” 1 and other decisions considering this issue.…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- San Diego Building Trades Council v. GarmonSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. De La CuestaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Maryland v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Schneidewind v. ANR Pipeline Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1988
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Myrick v. Freuhauf Corp.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
- Cellucci v. General Motors Corp.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
- Cooper v. General Motors Corp.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1997
- Miranda v. FridmanNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1994
- Hernandez-Gomez v. LeonardoArizona Supreme Court · 1994
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