Legal Opinion
Lavespere v. Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 13, 1990No. 89-4208PublishedCited by 442 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
An employee of a small manufacturing concern, after sustaining severe injuries to his hands while working with a machine owned by his employer, brought suit against the manufacturer of the machine, alleging that it was defectively designed in that it lacked adequate operator safeguards. After the district court had granted the manufacturer’s supplemental motion for summary judgment on the ground that the device in question was not defective as a matter of law, the employee filed a motion for reconsideration and, in support of that motion, proffered evidentiary…
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