Legal Opinion
Freightliner Corp. v. Myrick
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 18, 1995No. 94-286PublishedCited by 647 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thomas
By statute, the Secretary of Transportation has the authority to issue appropriate safety standards for motor vehicles and their equipment. Respondents filed lawsuits under state common law alleging negligent design defects in equipment manufactured by petitioners. Petitioners claim that these actions are pre-empted by a federal safety standard, even though the standard was suspended by a federal court. We hold that the absence of a federal standard cannot implicitly extinguish state common law.
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This case arises from two separate but essentially identical accidents in Georgia involving…
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