Mary Quinn Cooper

Representative Experience

Mary has handled a number of high-profile cases. A brief sampling includes:

• Selected by a leading automotive manufacturer to serve on a national team to respond to coordinated consumer credit pattern litigation in California and Michigan and throughout the United States, helping coordinate a national approach.
• Obtained defense verdict in favor of a Fortune 10 auto manufacturer in a multimillion-dollar wrongful death action alleging defective design and manufacturing of a pickup truck’s roof structure and safety belt system.
• Obtained a settlement for an amount in excess of the complaint in a breach of contract case and obtained a more than $900,000 sanctions award as a result of the defendant’s discovery abuse.
• Obtained defense verdict in favor of a forklift manufacturer in a seven-day jury trial in a products liability action brought by a young woman who had her leg amputated below the knee after her leg was crushed between the stand-up forklift she was operating and another forklift parked in a retail warehouse.
• Obtained defense verdict in favor of a major automobile manufacturer in a multimillion-dollar wrongful death case alleging negligent design and manufacturing for failure to make optional safety equipment standard.
• Obtained dismissal in federal court of putative bilateral class action in which plaintiff landowners sought monetary damages and the invalidation of all oil and gas leases held by energy companies in the nation’s second-highest producing county. Judgment affirmed on appeal to the Tenth Circuit.
• Obtained summary judgment in a high-profile accounting malpractice case which was affirmed.
• Obtained defense verdict in a case in federal court in Arkansas that was prosecuted by Johnnie Cochran and his law firm. In that case Mary successfully defended a major automotive manufacturer in a products liability case where a woman who lost her husband and four children claimed that a defect in the vehicle caused their deaths.
• Successfully defended automotive manufacturer in nationwide putative class action alleging claims of breach of express and implied warranties, violations of the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act, and violations of state consumer protection acts.
• Successfully defended automotive manufacturer in nationwide putative class action alleging breach of express and implied warranties, strict products liability, and negligence causes of action.
• Successfully defended commercial forklift distributor in nationwide putative class action involving allegedly unsolicited facsimile transmissions sent in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
• Handled class actions for various clients where nationwide classes have been certified.
•  Obtained defense verdict in a multimillion-dollar wrongful death action in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, where the families of five individuals who were killed in an automobile accident sued a major automobile manufacturer alleging a defect in the vehicles caused the accident and the resulting deaths.
• Obtained defense verdict for a major automotive manufacturer in lawsuit where a man who was rendered a quadriplegic following a rollover accident sued alleging that the roof offered inadequate protection in rollover accidents.
• Obtained defense verdict for a major automobile manufacturer in a wrongful death case where it was alleged that a driver died in a fuel-fed fire as a result of a defective fuel system design.
• Obtained defense verdict for a major automotive manufacturer in a wrongful death case alleging that a seat back was not strong enough to protect its occupants.
• Obtained defense verdict for two major motorcycle manufacturers in a case in Florida where it was alleged a product defect caused a single-motorcycle accident. Jury verdict affirmed on appeal.
• Obtained summary judgment in favor of a major automobile manufacturer after successfully excluding plaintiff’s expert testimony in a case where a product defect was alleged to be responsible for a catastrophic brain injury of an 8-year-old child. Judgment affirmed on appeal to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Obtained a unanimous defendant’s verdict representing a big three auto manufacturer in a wrongful death case in Washington County, OK, in which plaintiff alleged the subject vehicle had a defective restraint system.