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182585P.pdf 07/07/2020 Kristin Smith v. Toyota Motor Corporation
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-2585
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Hannibal
[PUBLISHED] Kobes, Author, with Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case -Products liability. Given plaintiff's concessions that there
was no evidence relating to the design of the seatbelt in her Toyota
4Runner and that her claim centered instead on failure to comply with
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 209, the district court did not
err in determining she had abandoned her claim for strict liability;
plaintiff failed to preserve her arguments that the district court
improperly allowed Toyota to introduce hearsay about the previous owner's
modifications to the truck.