
Grades: 9-12
Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues
Help your students to think critically about ethical issues and understand why ideas of right and wrong are vita…
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On this day in 1996, General Motors is ordered to pay 150 million dollars in punitive damages because of faulty door latches. This case was seen as an example of tort law gone berserk until GM internal documents emerged stating the door latches were "substandard" and prone to failure. Also, GM was not willing to pay the 916 million dollar price for the recall and repair of these faulty door latches.