Joel Douglas Ruminer v. General Motors Corporation, Gmc Truck, a Division of General Motors Corporation

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• holding circumstantial evidence did not allow the jury to determine failure of a car seatbelt system was caused by product defect
• holding circumstantial evidence did not allow the jury to determine whether failure of a car's seatbelt system was caused by product defect, product misuse, or some other condition arising after the vehicle left the manufacturer's control
• rejecting res ipsa-like theory of liability because jurors would be unfamiliar with “the intricacies of occupant protection systems and their potential . . . manufacturing defects”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).