General Motors Corp. v. Sanchez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that public policy favors reasonable conduct by consumers regardless of whether a product is defective, and does not relieve a consumer of the responsibility to act reasonably
• stating in a product defect case that “[p]ublic policy favors reasonable conduct by consumers” and that consumers have a responsibility to act reasonably
• noting “the trial court is the evidentiary gatekeeper with the primary responsibility to screen out unreliable expert evidence”
• allowing reliability challenge on appeal in absence of trial objection usurps trial court's discretion to screen out unreliable expert evidence
• noting in a products liability case, that although a consumer has no duty to discover a product defect, the consumer = s conduct other than failure to discover is subject to comparative responsibility
• “[a] court reviews all surrounding facts and circumstances to decide if a corporation itself is grossly negligent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).