STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. WEST

Nos. 82-8317, 82-8343, 82-8345, 82-8349, 82-8350, 82-8351, 82-8356, 82-8358, 82-8359, 82-8366, 82-8375, 82-8385, 82-8403, 82-8444, 82-8468, 82-8523 and 82-8637.

723 F.2d 1518 (1984)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mercedese H. WEST, Defendant-Appellant. Barbara GUERRUCCI and Enzo Guerrucci, as Next Friend of Lawrence and Jennifer Guerrucci, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Michele Denise SWEAT and Richard Sweat, Defendants-Appellants. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Walter Rodney SOUTHARD, Defendant-Appellant. Bryant DEWITT, as Administrator of the Estate of Annie Elon Capps, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James SMITH, Defendant-Appellant. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mattie Jo THOMAS, Defendant-Appellant. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John C. HUNSUCKER, Defendant-Appellant. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SHIRLEY BROTHERS CONTRACTORS, INC., and Marion Eugene Shirley, Defendants-Appellants. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Doyle MYERS, Defendant-Appellant. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas O. BALL, Richard Allen Evans, Defendants-Appellants. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William E. BRANNON, Defendant-Appellant. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David L. DAIL, Defendant-Appellant. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert A. SNEED and Robert A. Sneed, Jr., Defendants-Appellants. STATE FARM & CASUALTY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Margie D. BRADLEY, Defendant-Appellant. STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sammy S. VAUGHN, Defendant-Appellant. Keith M. LOVE and Helen M. Love, in her capacity as Wife and Guardian for Keith M. Love, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 18, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Skinner, Decatur, Ga., for defendant appellant in Nos. 82-8317, 82-8375.

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Robert M. Travis, Eugene G. Partain, Thomas D. Harper, Greer, Klosik & Daugherty, Richard G. Greer, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Kenneth J. Rajotte, McReynolds & Michaud, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 82-8343.

Michael Weinstock, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants in No. 82-8345.

Douglas E. Cobb, Norcross, Ga., for defendants-appellants in No. 82-8349.

Harrison, Kovacich & Naughton, Michael J. Kovacich, Matt Naughton, Clarkston, Ga., for defendant-appellant in No. 82-8351.

Robert Shurtz, Marietta, Ga., for defendant-appellant in No. 82-8358.

Bauer, Deitch, Raines & Hester, Gilbert H. Deitch, Jerrold Hester, Gerald B. Kline, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants in No. 82-8359.

David I. Funk, Lee S. Goldstein, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellant in No. 82-8366.

Harvey S. Gray, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellant in Nos. 82-8403, 82-8637.

Jack F. Witcher, John W. Kilgo, Bremen, Ga., for defendant-appellant in No. 82-8468.

Sewell K. Loggins, Elise M. Bloom, Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellant in No. 82-8523.

Before HILL, KRAVITCH and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges.


BY THE COURT:

The appellants, all claimants under "no-fault" insurance policies issued by appellees State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company or State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (State Farm), appeal from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granting summary judgment to the appellees. The district court, applying Georgia law, refused to extend retroactively the rule of Jones v. State Farm Mutual Automobile...

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