Alexander v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.

PER CURIAM.*

hAt issue is the appropriateness of summary judgment in a case where a car dealership, not acting as the direct seller to an injured plaintiff, is alleged to owe a duty to warn about the dangers of first generation airbag deployment in a vehicle manufactured prior to the national campaign that promoted revised warning labels. Specifically, the plaintiff purchased the 1995 Toyota Corolla in question from A-Quality Auto Sales, LLC, (“A-Quality”), a used car dealership that immediately purchased the vehicle from Lakeside Toyota after a trade-in. Several months after the plaintiffs…