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· 3/28/1986

Harriet Brooks v. Chrysler Corporation. Harriet Brooks v. Chrysler Corporation

Citations

  • 786 F.2d 1191
  • 252 U.S. App. D.C. 29
  • 20 Fed. R. Serv. 251
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 24019

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  • looking to both similarity of products as well as to the similarity of alleged defects
  • “[e]vidence of prior instances is admissible on the issues of the existence of a design defect and a defendant's knowledge of that defect only if a plaintiff shows that the incidents ‘occurred under circumstances substantially similar to those at issue in the case at bar’ ”

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Judges: Wald, Mikva, Swygert, Seventh

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