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HYUNDAI MOTOR CO. v. ALVARADO

No. 95-0969.

974 S.W.2d 1 (1998)

HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Hyundai Motor America, Inc., and Port City Hyundai, Inc., Petitioners, v. Mario ALVARADO, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided June 5, 1998.

Rehearing Overruled September 24, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruth G. Malinas, San Antonio, David E. Keltner, Fort Worth, David M. Heibron, Leslie G. Landau, San Francisco, David M. Prichard, Thomas H. Crofts, San Antonio, Vincent S. Walkowiak, Dallas, Malcolm E. Wheeler, Denver, CO, for Petitioners.

Christa Brown, Austin, Rebecca E. Hamilton, Rockwall, Steve T. Hastings, Corpus Christi, for Respondents.

SPECTOR, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court, in which GONZALEZ, BAKER, ABBOTT and HANKINSON, Justices, join.

Congress passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 "to reduce traffic accidents and deaths and injuries to persons resulting from traffic accidents." 15 U.S.C. § 13811 (recodified at 49 U.S.C. § 30101). The issue before us is whether the Act and its implementing regulations preempt common...

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