The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reconsider its March opinion allowing a wrongful death suit to proceed against a company that manufactured a seat belt blamed in the death of man killed when his Mazda 3 ran off the road.

The lawyers for Autoliv Japan Ltd., the company that manufactured the seat belt, had asked the appeals court to certify a question to the Georgia Supreme Court as to whether Georgia’s product liability law allowed the makers to be held liable even if they were not “actively involved” in the devices’ design or specifications.