General Motors Corp. v. Brewer

The principal question in this case is whether plaintiffs have raised a fact issue about the fitness of a certain restraint system in General Motors passenger cars for the ordinary purposes for which it is used. We hold that plaintiffs have not done so.

Thomas Brewer and others sued General Motors Corporation and a car dealership on behalf of themselves and all persons who, as of August 29, 1994, owned General Motors passenger cars manufactured since 1987 that have an automatic, non-motorized, passive, three-point restraint system employing door-mounted restraint retractors. Plaintiffs’…