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064141P.pdf   11/06/2007  Depositors Insurance Company  v.  General Electric Company
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-4141
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and Wollman,
   Circuit Judge]
   Civil case - Products liability. District court did not err in granting
   defendants' motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's product liability
   claims as plaintiff failed to offer any evidence showing the intended
   design of the lamp and extension cords in question or how the
   manufacturing of the cords departed from the intended product designs;
   nor did the court err in granting defendants' motion for summary
   judgment on plaintiff's claims for breach of implied warranty of
   merchantability as plaintiff failed to show defects in either cord;
   plaintiff's alternative theories of which cord caused the fire precluded the
   application of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine.