JACKSON v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.


60 S.W.3d 800 (2001)

Mounce A. JACKSON v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

November 29, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Williams and John B. Carlson, Nashville, TN, for the petitioner, Mounce A. Jackson.

Leo Bearman, Jr., Memphis, TN, Lanny B. Bridgers, and W. Randall Bassett, Atlanta, Georgia, for the respondent General Motors Corporation.

Charles B. Lewis, Linda J. Hamilton Mowles, Knoxville, TN, for Amicus Curiae, Product Liability Advisory Council.

Dianne Elizabeth Lashmit, Knoxville, TN, for Amicus Curiae, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association.


OPINION

FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which E. RILEY ANDERSON, ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., JANICEM. HOLDER, WILLIAMM. BARKER, JJ., joined.

Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee,1 this Court accepted certification of the following question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit:

In a products liability action under Tennessee law, may...

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