Bethie PRIDE, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
BIC CORPORATION; Societe BIC, S.A., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued: April 25, 2000.
Decided and Filed: July 7, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Sidney W. Gilreath (briefed), R. Christopher Gilreath (briefed), Gilreath & Associates, Knoxville, Tennessee, John W. Andrews (briefed), J. Troy Andrews (argued and briefed), Andrews Law Group, Tampa, Florida, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Joseph R. Wheeler (argued and briefed), Thomas I. Carlton, Jr. (briefed), Cornelius & Collins, Nashville, Tennessee, Robert R. Campbell, Hodges, Doughty & Carson, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Defendants-Appellees.
Chilton Davis Varner (briefed), Robert K. Woo, Jr. (briefed), King & Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia, Hugh F. Young, Jr. (briefed), Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., Reston, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae.
Before: RYAN and BOGGS, Circuit Judges; and DUGGAN, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
OPINION
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-Appellant Bethie Pride sued the defendants, BIC Corporation and Societe BIC, S.A. (BIC), the marketers of the BIC J-6 fixed flame model cigarette lighter,1 for the death of her late husband, Carl L. Pride. Mr. Pride sustained fatal third-degree burns after one of the J-6 model lighters allegedly first failed to extinguish, causing his clothing to ignite, and then exploded, peppering him...
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