Legal Opinion
Jamie Wilden v. Laury Transp.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 23, 2018No. 17-6306PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
This Kentucky state-law products-liability case was brought on behalf of Janice T. Wilden and her young son, both of whom were involved in a serious traffic accident with an eighteen-wheel tractor-trailer. Janice Wilden suffered severe brain damage when her sedan was pulled beneath the side of the trailer in what is known as a "side-underride" crash. The only remaining defendant is Great Dane Limited Partnership, the trailer's manufacturer. At issue on appeal is the district court's exclusion of plaintiffs' expert-witness testimony about an alternative design that…
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