JUDGE v. AMERICAN MOTORS CORP.

No. 89-3698.

908 F.2d 1565 (1990)

Joseph Bernard JUDGE, as personal representative of the estate of Laura Jeanne Weingartner Judge, a/k/a Laura Jeanne Judge, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN MOTORS CORPORATION, Jeep Corporation, and American Motors Sales Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 21, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Graves, Jr., Sarasota, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

David R. Tyrrell, Hill, Ward, Henderson, Tampa, Fla., Rodger Kesley, Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry & Woolf, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before CLARK, Circuit Judge, RONEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and ATKINS, Senior District Judge.


ATKINS, Senior District Judge:

This is an appeal from two dispositive district court orders. In the first order, the district court concluded that because the substantive law of Mexico controlled the appellant's claim for wrongful death, the appellant could not pursue that claim. In the second order, the district court held as a matter of law that the appellant's claim for misleading and deceptive advertising could not be maintained. For the following reasons, we...

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