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MED CENTER CARS, INC. v. SMITH

1960214-1960216, 1960401, 1960601, 1960602 and 1960826.

727 So.2d 9 (1998)

MED CENTER CARS, INC., d/b/a Med Center Mazda v. Douglas SMITH and Kimberly Smith. Crown Pontiac, Inc. v. Louis Clements. Jim Bishop-GEO-Buick-Oldsmobile, Inc. v. Olivia Thompson. Serra Automotive, Inc. v. Vivian D. Smith et al. Randall Greene Ford-Mercury, Inc. v. Ira P. Lewis et al. Woody Anderson Ford, Inc. v. Cynthia Bousson. Rahal Buick, Inc. v. Tonia Scarver et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Applications Denied December 11, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Rutherford, Jennifer M. Busby, and Eric D. Franz of Burr & Forman, L.L.P., Birmingham, for appellants, Med Center Cars, Inc., d/b/a Med Center Mazda; and Crown Pontiac, Inc.

C. Lee Reeves, Samuel M. Hill, and Charles R. Driggars of Sirote & Permutt, P.C., Birmingham, for appellant Jim Bishop Chevrolet-GEO-Buick-Oldsmobile, Inc.

R. Dale Wallace, Jr., Cecil H. Macoy, Jr., and Michael L. Jackson of Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, for appellant Serra Automotive, Inc.

Jeff Friedman, P. Thomas Dazzio, J. Michael Bowling of Starnes & Atchison, Birmingham, for appellants Randall Greene Ford-Mercury, Inc., Woody Anderson Ford, Inc., and Rahal Buick, Inc.

Lanny S. Vines and Michael L. Allsup of Emond & Vines, Birmingham, for appellees Douglas Smith and Kimberly Smith et al.

COOK, Justice.

The Jefferson Circuit Court denied the defendants' motions to compel arbitration and to stay proceedings against them by plaintiff class representatives. The defendants appeal. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

On June 24, 1994, Gregory Tapscott filed an action in the Jefferson Circuit Court for himself and on behalf of similarly situated persons in Alabama, against MS Dealer Service Corporation, Jim Burke Automotive, Inc., Mississippi...

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