St. Clair v. Russell & Pugh Lumber Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that performance requirement could establish minimum conditions that could be met by few systems since industry not foreclosed from develop ing other ways of complying
• holding that a portion of FMVSS 208 was invalid
• agency’s choice of air bags over active seat belt restraints as “practicable” and meeting “the need for motor safety” must be upheld when neither method “is clearly superior to the other in every respect”
• “the Agency is empowered to issue safety standards which require improvements in existing technology or which require the development of new technology, and it is not limited to issuing standards based solely on devices already fully developed”
• Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
• Automobile Safety Act of 1966

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).