Matt Carr

About

Over his career, portrait photographer Matt Carr has captured countless famous faces from Ewan McGregor, Javier Bardem to Natalie Portman. His work has appeared in major publications including The New York Times, Time Out, Newsweek, Life, Elle, Esquire, Premiere and Field and Stream. After 10 years working in London and Prague, the Indiana native now lives and works in New York. You can see more of his work on: www.mattcarr.comin the Freightliner tractor.  Parker now appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of both defendants.

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Parker's suit arises out of a hauling trip he made to Kansas City on November 20, 1983.  Before starting out for Kansas City, Parker inspected the truck he was to drive, a Freightliner 1600 series tractor equipped with a National Seating Cush-N-Air Model 95 air suspension seating system.  In the tractor unit, Parker found two "cry cards"--a system drivers for Consolidated Freightways used to alert the company, as well as other drivers, to any problems or damage to a tractor trailer or its component parts.  According to Parker, one of the cry cards registered a previous driver's complaint about the seat's suspension system and stated