BAKER v. BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE, INC.

No. 5:91 CV 1988.

893 F.Supp. 1349 (1995)

Donald Burton BAKER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BRIDGESTONE/FIRESTONE, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.

July 25, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Looney, Blakemore, Meeker & Varian, Akron, OH, John L. Hash, Winston-Salem, NC, J. Roland Wagner, Eric R. Wagner, Law Offices of J. Roland Wagner, Napa, CA, W. Carl Reynolds, Katherine L. McArthur, Bradley J. Survant, Reynolds & McArthur, Macon, GA, Steve R. Warren, Reynolds & McArthur, Asheville, NC, Thomas W. Bennett, Macon, GA, for Donald Burton Baker, Sr., Betty Muriel Baker.

Harland B. Horton, Jr., Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., Dept. of Law, Akron, OH, Paul M. Pohl, Joseph M. David, John D. Goetz, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Pittsburgh, PA, Robert J. Drexler, Sr., Knowlton, Sanderson, Ragan, Cady, Corbett & Drexler, Akron, OH, Thomas F. Gardner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Chicago, IL, Frances E. Prell, Julie P. Shelton, Burke, Weaver & Prell, Chicago, IL, Richard M. Markus, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Cleveland, OH, for Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.

Edward J. Cass, Timothy John Fitzgerald, Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman, Cleveland, OH, for Kelsey-Hayes Co.

Robert Franklin Orth, Roderick, Myers & Linton, Akron, OH, Thomas P. Schult, Stinson, Mag & Fizzell, Kansas City, MO, for The Budd Co.

Charles E. Pierson, David P. Bertsch, Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, Akron, OH, for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Inc., Motor Wheel Corp.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

SAM H. BELL, District Judge.

On October 6, 1990, Plaintiff Donald Burton Baker was seriously injured by an exploding wheel rim alleged to have been made by one of the defendants. Plaintiffs filed this product liability action in 1991. The case proceeded in a normal fashion through case management, and the trial was originally scheduled to commence on July 14, 1992. Due to protracted discovery, the trial date was eventually moved...

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