Legal Opinion
Bruce Lindholm v. BMW of North America, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 3, 2017No. 16-3516PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Using a jack supplied by his car’s manufacturer, Alex Lindholm was repairing his car when, tragically, it fell and killed him. Relying on federal courts’ diversity jurisdiction, Alex’s father sued BMW of North America, LLC, the car’s American distributor, on behalf of Alex’s estate, and both of Alex’s parents sued in their individual capacities. They laid claims for strict liability based on defective design, negligence, negligent design, breach of implied warranties, and wrongful death. The district court 1 granted BMW’s motion for summary judgment on each of the…
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