Legal Opinion
Cellucci v. General Motors Corp.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 2, 1998No. 77 Eastern District Appeal Docket 1996PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
CASTILLE, Justice.
The sole issue on appeal in these two matters is whether the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1996, 15 U.S.C. § 1381, et seq. (recodified at 49 U.S.C. §§ 30101-33118) (“the Safety Act”), preempts state causes of action sounding in tort based upon a manufacturer’s failure to equip a vehicle with air bags for occupant crash protection. Because we find that the Safety Act impliedly preempts such state actions sounding in tort, we affirm the order of the Superior Court in Cellucci and reverse the order of the Commonwealth Court in Muntz.
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