Lawson v. Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that res ipsa loquitur did not apply when plaintiffs failed to adequately address the prior owner’s maintenance and handling of the vehicle
• Plaintiff can “use circumstantial evidence in order to make the inference that a product was unreasonably dangerous when that product left a manufacturer’s control.”
• “[T]he evidence should sufficiently exclude inference of the plaintiff’s own responsibility or the responsibility of others besides [the] defendant in causing the accident.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).