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Customer sues ScooterCo in federal court after a rental scooter's front brake allegedly failed on a hill. ScooterCo denies notice of any brake problem before the accident and argues that Customer simply rode too fast.
Customer offers an internal email chain sent three weeks before the accident. In the first email, a customer-service employee wrote to the safety manager, "Three riders called this week to say the front brakes on Model X scooters failed downhill." The safety manager forwarded the email to engineering and added, "If these complaints are right, we should pull the Model X fleet before someone is badly hurt." Customer offers the chain to prove ScooterCo had notice of a possible brake problem and to explain why an engineering inspection was scheduled but not completed. Customer also wants the jury to treat the riders' complaints as proof that Model X brakes actually failed.
How should the court analyze the email chain? Discuss hearsay, nonhearsay purposes, truth use, and any limiting instruction.