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QUINTANA-RUIZ v. HYUNDAI MOTOR CORP.

Nos. 01-1693, 01-1694.

303 F.3d 62 (2002)

Minerva QUINTANA-RUIZ, on her own behalf and in representation of her minor daughter, Ines M. Reyes-Quintana, Plaintiff, Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. HYUNDAI MOTOR CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 27, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie G. Landau with whom McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, LLP, Lee G. Sullivan, Gibson, McAskill & Crosby, LLP, Brian P. Crosby, Graffam & Biaggi, and Keith A. Graffam were on the brief for Hyundai Motor Corporation.

Francisco Rebollo-Casalduc with whom Andrés Guillemard-Noble, Giselle Colón, and Nachman, Guillemard & Rebollo were on the brief for Minerva Quintana-Ruiz.

Before SELYA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This product design case tests some of the limits of the minority rule, adopted by Puerto Rico and California, that the defendant bears the burden of proving that the utility of a product's design outweighs the risks. Aponte Rivera v. Sears Roebuck de P.R., Inc., 144 P.R. Dec. 830, 840 n. 9, 1998 P.R.-Eng. 324486 n. 9, 1998 WL 198857 (1998); Barker v. Lull Eng'r Co., 20 Cal.3d 413,

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