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November 23, 2007


Chrysler: this time, we need a jury

Q. In what sounds like an otherwise garden-variety crashworthiness case against Chrysler, when is one somehow not surprised to learn that the automaker defendant -- and not just the plaintiff, as would be the usual order of events -- is insisting on its right to a jury rather than bench trial?

A. When the case is filed in the Marshall Division of the Eastern District of Texas and has landed in the court of federal judge John T. Ward, of recent automotive-suit fame.

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