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GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. JERNIGAN

1020069.

883 So.2d 646 (2003)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION v. Wilbert JERNIGAN, individually and as father and next friend of Jeffrey Jernigan, a minor child.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 12, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren B. Lightfoot and M. Christian King of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham; Robert D. Hays, Jameson B. Carroll, and L. Frank Coan, Jr., of King & Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia; and David M. Heilbron, Frank M. Hinman, Christina M. Wheeler, and May Lee of Bingham McCutchen, LLP, San Francisco, California, for appellant.

Frank M. Wilson, Montgomery; Jere Locke Beasley and J. Greg Allen of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC, Montgomery; Fred D. Gray, Sr., and Walter E. McGowan of Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray & Nathanson, Tuskegee; and Lynn W. Jinks III of Jinks, Daniel & Crow, Union Springs, for appellee.

George M. Walker of Hand Arendall, L.L.C., Mobile; and Walter Dellinger, Brian D. Boyle, and Matthew M. Shors of O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., in support of the appellant.

LYONS, Justice.

General Motors Corporation ("GM") appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of Wilbert Jernigan, individually and as father and next friend of Jeffrey Jernigan, a minor child (the father is hereinafter referred to as "Jernigan"), and from the trial court's order denying its postjudgment motion. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

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