Legal Opinion
Guild v. General Motors Corp.
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided June 1, 1999No. 6:95-cv-06582PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
FELDMAN, United States Magistrate Judge.
Factual Background
In this products liability action, plaintiff Carol Guild (hereinafter Guild) claims that her 1987 Cutlass, manufactured by defendant General Motors, (hereinafter GM) was “uncrashworthy” in that it was equipped with a defective and unsafe seat belt system. Specifically, Guild alleges that the seat belt system utilized in her automobile was defective, dangerous and unsafe because in certain crash settings inertial forces generated during a collision will cause the seat belt buckle to release and unlatch. Guild claims…
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