One case we study in class is that of Grimshaw vs. Ford Motor Co. The case was brought on behalf of Richard Grimshaw, who was 13 and riding in his neighbor’s Pinto when it was hit from behind ...

In the late 1960s, a charismatic vice president at Ford decided to bring out a low-priced car that could be produced for little money while bringing in huge profits. The executive's name was Lee ...

Leonard Goldstein, a retired Orange County, Calif., Superior Court judge who presided over the 1970s Ford Pinto product liability case that resulted in a then-record jury award of nearly $128.5 ...

In a paper published in the Rutgers Law Review in 1991 entitled “The Myth of the Ford Pinto Case,” the popularly accepted fatality figures of 500-900 deaths was scaled way back to the official ...