EX PARTE AUSTAL USA, LLC

1151138 and 1151244.

233 So.3d 975 (2017)

EX PARTE AUSTAL USA, LLC (In re Michael Keshock et al. v. Metabowerke GMBH et al.). Ex parte Austal USA, LLC (In re Michael Keshock et al. v. Metabowerke GMBH et al.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Neiman, Jr. , and Prim F. Escalona of I Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham; and Brian P. McCarthy and Anne Laurie McClurkin of McDowell Knight Roedder & Sledge, LLC, Mobile, for petitioner.

David G. Wirtes, Jr. , J. Brian Duncan, Jr. , 1 and William E. Bonner of Cunningham Bounds, LLC, Mobile, for the respondents.

Ed R. Haden and Michael Taunton of Balch & Bingham LLP, for amici curiae Business Council i of Alabama and the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, in support of the petitioner.

C. Britton Bonner of Adams & Reese LLP, Mobile, for amicus curiae Shipbuilders' Council of Alabama, in support of the 1 petitioner.

Marc James Ayers and Stephen C. Parsley of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Birmingham; Allen M. Estes of Balch & Bingham, LLP, Birmingham; and Mark D. Hess of Nand Arendall, LLC, Birmingham, for amicus curiae Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, in support of the petitioner.


Austal USA, LLC ("Austal"), filed two petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the Mobile Circuit Court to dismiss certain claims asserted against it by plaintiffs Michael Keshock, Martin Osborn, Richard Fitzgerald, Tyrone Lucas, Riley Bodiford, Tommie Brandon, Justin Reed, and William White (hereinafter referred to collectively...

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