Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Harman v. Trinity Industries Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 29, 2017No. 15-41172PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM,
Circuit Judge:
The trial in this case offers two narratives. One of a hardworking man who, angered by failures of guardrails installed across the United States—with sometimes devastating consequences—persuaded a Texas jury of a concealed cause of those failures. The other of the inventive genius of professors at Texas A&M’s Transportation Institute, who, over many years of study and testing, developed patented systems including guardrails that, while saving countless lives, cannot protect from all collisions at all angles and all speeds by all vehicles—guardrails that…
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