O'NEILL v. Checker Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• opining that to succeed on a malfunction theory, appellant had to present a case-in-chief evidencing the occurrence of the malfunction and eliminating abnormal use or reasonable, secondary causes for the malfunction
• affirming the granting of summary judgment on a negligence claim regarding a taxicab because there was no evidence of a defect in the cab
• appellate court will decline to quash an appeal where effective appellate review is not precluded by the deficiencies of appellant’s brief.
• pro se litigant is “not entitled to any particular advantage because he lacks legal training”
• any layperson choosing to represent herself in a legal proceeding must, to some reasonable extent, assume the risk that her lack of expertise and legal training will prove her undoing
• any layperson choosing to represent herself in a legal proceeding must, to some reasonable extent, assume the risk that her lack of expertise and legal training will prove her undoing

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