Brooks v. Beech Aircraft Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that decision whether to apply strict liability principles to design defect claims depends upon a balancing of conflicting policy considerations
• stating that the existing jury instruction allows “proof and argument on all of the factors suggested by the Restatement (Third) of Torts as relevant in determining whether the omission of a reasonable alternative gave rise to an unreasonable risk of injury”
• imposing “strict liability against manufacturers for injuries caused by defective product design”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).