Mealey's (April 27, 2018, 11:48 AM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A woman who suffered a spinal cord injury in a car crash, resulting in permanent, complete quadriplegia, won two victories in her product liability suit against a carmaker when a California federal judge on April 26 rejected the company’s bid to exclude her life care needs expert testimony and ruled that California law applies to the action (Miriam Michelle Mendoza v. General Motors LLC, et al., No. 1:16-cv-00967, E.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70542)....