Court Opinion

ID: 9547536
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:48:35.300712+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:17:50.435783
License: Public Domain

WALTERS, Justice (Specially Concurring). I specially concur in this opinion, for the purpose of emphasizing my agreement with Chief Justice Federici’s treatment of the evidence produced on the issue of proximate cause and the jury verdict on the question of liability, and my disagreement with the Court’s recent quashing of certiorari in the case of Duran v. General Motors Corporation, 22 SBB 1231 (November 17, 1983). Duran raised the identical issue on proximate cause and sought the same relief we grant this plaintiff in today’s case. The majority of this Court last month refused to review the Court of Appeals’ reversal of the jury’s verdict obtained by plaintiff in Duran where, on similar expert evidence, the Court of Appeals held that proximate cause had not been shown and that the jury should not have considered defendant’s liability. While agreeing with the disposition of the instant case, I must express my opposition to selective reviews which permit unequal treatment of plaintiffs’ petitions for certiorari and inconsistent results on identical claims of error.