Brethauer v. General Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “consumers have expectations about how safely seatbelts will perform” because they are “educated from a young age,” “use seatbelts daily and are familiar with their single, safety-related function: keeping belted passengers restrained”
• “A 19 manufacturer is strictly liable for injuries caused by use of a product in a defective 20 condition and unreasonably dangerous.”
• “[T]he prejudicial nature of the error will not be presumed but must affirmatively appear from the record.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).