Shunta Bowen
Bus 211
Sample Case Brief
WORLD-WIDE VOLKSWAGEN CORP. v. WOODSON
Supreme Court of the United States, 1980
Facts:
Harry and Kay Robinson were buyers of a new car made by Audi sold at Seaway
Volkswagen Inc in Massena, NY. On the road to visit Arizona from New York Harry and Kay’s
Audi was hit in the rear by another vehicle in Oklahoma, and this in turn started a fire that
seriously burned Kay and her two children. Harry and Kay later brought an action to the District
