United States v. General Motors Corporation, a Corporation. General Motors Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Brock Adams

The facts and circumstances surrounding this case are fully stated in the dissent. While the court agrees with much of Judge LeventhaTs scholarly opinion, we believe that the Government’s motion for summary judgment should have been granted by the District Court, not only on the issue whether a defect existed in the steering pitman arm of the 1959-60 model Cadillac automobiles, but also on the issue whether the defect was related to motor vehicle safety. The evidence is uncontradicted that General Motors sold six times as many pitman arm replacements for the 1959-60 Cadillac models as for…