Texas Supreme Court overturns Sarah Milburn/Honda seat belt ruling
Sarah Milburn was driving an Uber Honda Odyssey when the car crashed, leaving a Texas woman a quadriplegic. July 8, 2024 — The Texas Supreme Court has vacated a $26 million verdict against Honda in the case of Sarah Milburn, who became a quadriplegic in a collision with a 2011 Honda Odyssey minivan driven by Uber driver Arian Yusufzai. On the night of November 14, 2015, Sarah Milburn, then 23, went to a bar in Dallas with five friends. Shortly after midnight, they decided to go to another bar to meet up with other friends. According to court documents, one member of the gang called an Uber and Uber driver Arian Yousafzai picked them up in a 2011 Honda Odyssey. Sarah Milburn was sitting in the third-row middle seat, but the seat's removable anchor points were not locked and the webbing was retracted into the ceiling-mounted retractor. After Milburn buckled up, he pulled the seat belt down from the ceiling,…
ICYMI: Supreme Court overturns landmark Chevron case
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court overturned Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which gave federal agencies wide latitude to interpret laws. Judges can now interpret laws on their own, rather than defer to agencies, making it easier to overturn federal government regulations.What is Chevron DeferenceIn 1984, the Supreme Court decided Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a case involving the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) interpretation of the Clean Air Act. The court ruled that because the law was vague, the EPA (and other federal agencies) should have leeway to interpret the statute. Moreover, Chevron said, courts should uphold the agency’s interpretation as long as it was reasonable, even if it differed from what the court considered to be the best interpretation of the statute.This principle became known as “Chevron deference” and became one of the most important decisions in administrative law. In the 40 years since Chevron, federal courts have cited it more than 18,000 times.Supreme Court overturns…
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