Legal Opinion
Murphy v. Nissan Motor Corp. in U.S.A.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 7, 1987No. 84CV4556PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
KORMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff, Maura Ann Murphy, was a passenger in a 1983 Nissan Sentra automobile which crashed head-on into a tree, leaving her a paraplegic. At the time of the accident plaintiff’s seat was fully reclined and she was not wearing a seat belt. In this action against Nissan Motor Corporation In U.S.A. (“Nissan”), in which jurisdiction is predicated on diversity of citizenship, plaintiff alleges, inter alia, that the automobile manufactured by Nissan was a defectively designed product because the automobile’s seat belts were ineffective when the…
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