IN RE BEVERLY HILLS FIRE LITIGATION

Civ. No. 77-79.

583 F.Supp. 1163 (1984)

In re BEVERLY HILLS FIRE LITIGATION.

United States District Court, E.D. Kentucky, Catlettsburg Division.

January 4, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley M. Chesley (argued), White, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, Ohio (Philip Taliaferro, III, Larry C. West, J. Gregory Wehrman, William D. Hillmann, G. Wayne Bridges, Covington, Ky., Thomas C. Spraul, Spraul & Reyering, Gene I. Mesh, Louis F. Gilligan and Lanny R. Holbrook, Keating, Muething & Klekamp, Walter Bortz, Beall, Hermanies & Bortz, Cincinnati, Ohio, E. Andre Busald, Florence, Ky., Richard M. Hunt, Dayton, Ohio, on brief; Fay E. Stilz, Cincinnati, Ohio, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees Mary Elizabeth Kiser, et al.

Jacob K. Stein (argued), Paxton & Seasongood, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Square D Co. and Slater Elec. Co.

Charles S. Cassis, Brown, Todd & Heyburn, Louisville, Ky., for Bryant Elec.

John David Cole, Cole, Harned & Broderick, Bowling Green, Ky., for Southwire and Triangle PWC.

Louis DeFalaise, Adams, Brooking & Stepner, Covington, Ky., for Columbia Cable & Elec. Corp.

Robert C. Ewald, Wyatt, Grafton & Sloss, Louisville, Ky., for Reynolds Metals.

James Wiles, Wiles, Doucher, Tressler & Van Buren, Columbus, Ohio, for American Insulated Wire, Leviton and Rhode Island Insulated Wire.

Lee O. Fitch, Miller, Searl & Fitch, Portsmouth, Ohio, for Hatfield Wire.

William V. Johnson, Johnson, Cusack & Bell, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for Marmon Group, Inc.

William T. McCracken, Crabbe, Brown, Jones, Potts & Schmidt, Columbus, Ohio, for General Elec.

W. Andrew Patton, Kohnen & Kohnen, Cincinnati, Ohio, for John I. Paulding.

C. Alex Rose, Curtis, Rose & Parker, Louisville, Ky., for Pass & Seymour.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WILHOIT, District Judge.

This case is on remand from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Sixth Circuit reversed because a juror in the first trial of this case conducted impermissible experimentations during deliberations. The Sixth Circuit's opinion also addressed the defendants' cross-appeal of the first trial judge's denial of summary judgment based on Kentucky's "no-action" statute, KRS § 413.135.

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