Holly Shipp v. General Motors Corporation

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

General Motors appeals from a judgment following a jury trial in a products liability crashworthiness case. It challenges both the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s findings of defective roof design and producing cause and the district court’s evidentiary rulings regarding certain demonstrative evidence depicting rollover sequences. We affirm.

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Holly Shipp, a nineteen-year-old Texas college student, and four of her friends were returning from a party in Holly’s 1976 Pontiac TransAm automobile. While navigating the local “Dead Man’s Curve,”…