Patricia M. Wood v. General Motors Corporation

U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · Decided 1988-12-28

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LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge. The question before us is whether federal safety regulations preempt a state law claim, asserted in a federal diversity action, that a motor vehicle was defective because it lacked air bags. This is an interlocutory appeal in a product liability diversity action brought in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts by plaintiff-appellee Patricia Wood a…

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