United States Ninth Circuit

In a product liability suit against a forklift manufacturer, the district court did not err in refusing introduction of 1) military forklift design specifications as irrelevant and 2) reports of independent engineers consulted by defendant as inadmissible hearsay.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2002
• Decided 04/24/2003
• Published 04/24/2003

Judges

• Before B. FLETCHER, O'SCANNLAIN, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John Aisenbrey, Kansas City, MO;  Malcolm E. Wheeler, Denver, CO;  Donald H. Pyle, Portland, OR;  Robert Toland, II, Wayne, PA;  and Lee Mickus, Denver, CO, for the defendants-appellants., Mark Zwerling, Kathryn H. Clarke, and J. Randolph Pickett, Portland, OR, for the plaintiff-appellee.