Legal Opinion
Kathleen Madaline Jarvis, Individually and as a Parent and Guardian of Paul Michael Attila Jarvis, a Minor v. Ford Motor Company
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 7, 2002No. Docket 99-9405(L), 00-9215(CON)PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge VAN GRAAFEILAND concurs in part and dissents in part in a separate opinion.
SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge.
A six-day-old 1991 Ford Aerostar driven by plaintiff-appellant Kathleen Jarvis suddenly accelerated, resulting in an accident from which Jarvis sustained serious injuries. Jarvis contends that the Aerostar “took off’ without her depressing the accelerator and that she was unable to stop the van by pumping the brakes.
Jarvis sued defendant-appellee Ford Motor Company (“Ford”) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Buchwald, J.) claiming, inter alia, that…
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